Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Issue 15: "The Icelandic Issue" (2004)
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| Editor | Dave Eggers |
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| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Year founded | 1998 |
| Company | McSweeney's |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | San Francisco, California |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is an American literary journal, typically containing short stories, reportage, and illustrations. Some issues also include poetry, comic strips, and novellas. The Quarterly Concern is published by McSweeney's. The journal is notable in that it has no fixed format, and changes its publishing style from issue to issue, unlike more conventional journals and magazines. It is produced by the publishing house McSweeney’s. The Quarterly was first published in 1998, and it is edited by Dave Eggers.
The first issue featured only works that had been rejected by other publications, but the journal has since begun publishing pieces written with McSweeney’s in mind. The journal is based in San Francisco.
McSweeney's was founded in 1998 after Dave Eggers left an editing position at Esquire, during the same time he was working on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. McSweeney's is a sort of successor to Eggers' earlier magazine project Might, although Might was focused on editorial content and news, and not literature. Eggers also refers to McSweeney's as having "less edge" than Might.
Although originally reaching only a small audience, McSweeney's has grown to be a well respected journal, with Ruth Franklin, writing for Slate, referring to the Quarterly (and company) as "...the first bona fide literary movement in decades". NPR, writing about the company's fifteenth anniversary, referred to the journal as the "flagship literary quarterly" of a "literary empire based in San Francisco".
Notable authors featured in McSweeney's include Denis Johnson, William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Robert Coover, Stephen King, David Foster Wallace and Ann Beattie. The Quarterly has also helped launch the careers of dozens of emerging writers, including Philipp Meyer, Wells Tower, and Rebecca Curtis.
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