08:30 PM : McSweeney's Sweet 16 @ Powells

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From Strong Week:

Somewhere between smart and smartypants is the clever, clever writing of McSweeney's. While it sometimes falls into literary stand-up comedy ("Hey, didja ever notice..."), it makes you laugh anyway and appreciate the beautiful and expansive brains applied thusly to lists, letters, and other deadpanisms. Now the McSweeney's juggernaut (introduced tonight by managing editor Eli Horowitz) releases both Issue 16 of its print self (it's also at McSweeneys.net) and two books (by Paul La Farge and Salvador Plascencia) under its new Rectangular Fiction imprint. Salvador Plascencia, whose The People of Paper is being heralded as a great first novel (involving East Los, origami, and Catholicism in a mythic cassoulet), will represent Team McS at Powell's.[LR]