Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 22, 2007
"Three Books Held Within By Magnets"
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McSweeney's Issue 22 is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction—of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes—poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, and D. C. Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet. The next poet will then do the same, and then again, and again, and so on. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes—F. Scott Fitzgerald!) provides a list of unused story premises first cataloged in The Crack-Up ; his mission is completed by writers like Diane Williams and Nick Flynn. In section three, finally, the president of France's (yes—France!) legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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