McSweeney's Issue 26 - Tapa dura

Welcome to yet another design-busting treat from Dave Eggers and his team -- and one which gives you the added bonus of three books in one. Firstly, there's Where to Invade Next with all the vital guidelines -- the threats, the steps, the targets -- on how the US should go about launching its next seven wars. And then there are two small, oblong selections of paperback fiction from the US and abroad, spanning subjects from pigs eaten by Serbians, auto mechanics still reeling from Katrina and Bosnian detergent factories.

Read them one at a time, or all at once, but know that this one’s got it all -- whirlwind visions of the world of today, and hard-eyed essays about which parts of it should be blown up immediately.

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, Teachers Have It Easy, What Is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, Heroes of the Frontier and The Monk of Mokha. A Hologram for the King and The Circle have both been adapted into major feature films.

Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family.