There are few things that make me as consistently happy as opening the shipping box that contains the latest issue of McSweeney's, and #36 has one of their best packaging efforts yet.
This issue is contained within a cardboard head illustrated by Matt Furie. Opening it reveals several booklets, including the magazine proper, a play by Wajahit Ali, an "oral history of resistance in Burma," and an excerpt from Adam Levin's 1000-page novel, The Instructions.
One piece is a plain brown wrapper containing a screenplay and a cover letter, explaining that the script is intended for a new Mike Myers/Dana Carvey vehicle. The most elaborate booklet collects four chapters from a "wrecked" Michael Chabon novel titled Fountain City, encased in a jacket that unfolds to reveal a map of a (partially submerged?) city.
There is also a four-part postcard series of a fish.
