From Illustoria's parent publishers at McSweeney's In a June 2023 submission call for new work by never-before-published writers, McSweeney’s received thousands of submissions in a single month. The stories in this issue (our seventy-fifth, an almost unfathomable milestone) are the crème de la crème of that bounty. Guest-edited by longtime McSweeney’s editor Eli Horowitz, our 75th issue contains ten radiant stories, each published as an individual booklet with stunning art by ten different artists. All ten booklets are collected inside a beautiful and sturdy and elaborately foil-stamped dossier-like case, which opens to reveal a series of accordion pockets—each one containing a pair of booklets—and snaps shut with a magnetic closure. The stories, whose authors and settings span continents, announce themselves with bravado, excellence, and energy. Get this issue for eternal bragging rights of being present at the ground floor of each of these writers’ sure-to-be-storied futures.