Other McSweeney’s Publications
McSweeney’s is a small, independent publishing company based in San Francisco. In addition to our namesake Quarterly of award-winning short fiction and design, we also publish children’s books, art books, comics, and a wide array of fiction and nonfiction. Below are a handful of things you might be interested in. For more information, visit us at store.mcsweeneys.net, or seek out and support your local independent bookstore.
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming
by Lemony Snicket
Latkes are potato pancakes served at Hanukah. Lemony Snicket is an alleged children’s author. For the first time in literary history, these two elements are combined in one book. People who are interested in either or both of these things will find this book so enjoyable it will feel as if Hanukah is being celebrated for several years, rather than eight nights. People who are interested in neither of these things will get what they deserve.
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming is hardcover, foil-stamped, and full of colorful illustrations, well-suited for giving, receiving, or clutching selfishly in trembling hands.
Lucky Peach
Lucky Peach is a quarterly journal of food writing, edited by award-winning chef David Chang, writer Peter Meehan, and longtime McSweeney’s editor Chris Ying. It is a mélange of travelogue, essays, art, photography, rants, and recipes in a full-color, meticulously designed format. Averaging 176 pages of nearly ad-free content, our aim is to produce a publication that appeals to diehard foodies as well as fans of good writing and art in general.
“[Lucky Peach] breaks many of the conventions not only of food journalism, but of magazine journalism in general.… A glorious, improbable artifact, [and a] hit among the food-obsessed.… A reminder of print’s true wingspan.”
—David Carr, The New York Times
Mission Street Food
by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibovitz
ONE OF “THE BEST COOKBOOKS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS” BY THE LA TIMES
A 2011 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE COOKBOOK
ONE OF BON APPETIT’S BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2011
Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it’s also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction.
Like Mission Street Food itself, this book is more than one thing: it’s a cookbook featuring step-by-step photography and sly commentary, but it’s also the memoir of a madcap project that redefined the authors’ marriage and a city’s food scene. Along with stories and recipes, you’ll find an idealistic business plan, a cheeky manifesto, and thoughtful essays on issues ranging from food pantries to fried chicken. Plus, a comic.
“An amazing story. An amazing institution.”—Anthony Bourdain
