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is a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation. But since its conception in 1998 by author Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Quarterly has been anything but, opting instead to be an endlessly mutating delivery system for writing and art. It has been a hardcover book, a paperback, a newspaper. Once it was a bundle of mail; another time, a deck of playing cards. Imagination and capriciousness have defined McSweeney’s for nearly three decades. The latest issue, edited by Rita Bullwinkel and guest-edited by two celebrated writers — cartoonist Thi Bui and novelist Vu Tran — attempts to capture the messy and disparate nature of the Vietnamese diaspora with a package that is, by design, messy and disparate. The 78th issue of McSweeney’s, “The Make-Believers,” arrives in a cigar box with painted illustrations by Bui containing several unique book ... Read full article.