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Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has joined forces with the editors of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to create a collection of action-packed short stories by some of today's most talented names in literature. Elmore Leonard's telling of life for a fifteen-year-old boy and his dad in 1920's Oklahoma in "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman" shifts easily to the happenings of an adolescent's unexpected run-in with the future in Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium." In these and other stories, including Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick," Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn't Come Out," "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" by Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That" (read by Harlan Ellison, himself), Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes," and "The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance" by Michael Chabon, the authors return to the traditions of pulp fiction, spinning adventurous, suspense-ridden tales destined to keep their audience on the edges of their seats.

Table of Contents:

• The Editor's Notebook - (2003) - essay by Michael Chabon
• Tedford and the Megalodon - (2003) - shortstory by Jim Shepard
• The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter - (2003) - shortstory by Glen David Gold
• The Bees - shortstory by Dan Chaon
• Catskin - (2003) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman - (2003) - shortstory by Elmore Leonard
• The General - (2003) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Closing Time - (2003) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Otherwise Pandemonium - (2003) - shortstory by Nick Hornby
• The Tale of Gray Dick - (2003) - shortstory by Stephen King
• Blood Doesn't Come Out - (2003) - shortstory by Michael Crichton
• Weaving the Dark - (2003) - shortstory by Laurie R. King
• Chuck's Bucket - (2003) - shortstory by Chris Offutt
• Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly - (2003) - shortstory by Dave Eggers
• The Case of the Nazi Canary - (2003) - shortstory by Michael Moorcock
• The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers - (2003) - shortstory by Aimee Bender
• Ghost Dance - (2003) - shortstory by Sherman Alexie
• Goodbye to All That - (2003) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Private Grave 9 - (2003) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Albertine Notes - (2003) - novella by Rick Moody
• The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance - (2003) - novelette by Michael Chabon
• About the Contributors - (2003) - essay by Michael Chabon
• This Book Benefits 826 Valencia - (2003) - essay by Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon

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