McSweeneys Issue 65 McSweeneys Quarterly Concern: Plundered Guest Editor Valeria Luiselli

McSweeney's 65: Plundered spans the Americas, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas, and considers the violence that shaped it. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples?Guest-edited by acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli, with Heather Cleary, Issue 65 brings together stories of stolen artifacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and, crucially, defiance.

Including contributors from Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and more, Plundered is a panoramic portrait of a hemisphere on fire.Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly "A key barometer of the literary climate."-The New York Times