Cover Of McSweeney’s Issue 29

McSweeney’s has grown to be one of the country’s best and largest-circulation literary journals. It’s committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. Past contributors include David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, and William T. Vollmann.

 

Issue 29 will be a hardcover and should be released around November 1, 2008.

 

10th Anniversary Edition Of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter fans, mark your calendars for September 23, 2008! That’s when you can go back and celebrate where the magic started with the special 10th anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This new hardcover edition will feature exclusive bonus material from J.K. Rowling as well as new cover art by Mary Grandpré. The new cover “depicts 11-year-old Harry looking into the Mirror of Erised, which Harry comes across in his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and learns that the mirror shows you what you most desire.”

And from Grandpré: “It’s a real treat for me to get another chance to visually bring Harry back to his fans in not only a new scene, but in a new light. Going back to draw the first cover for the anniversary edition was an opportunity for me to show another side of Harry… a vulnerable side. Having come to know and love Harry the way we all have, after experiencing the whole series, I think we can appreciate him even more on an emotional level.”