{"id":169,"date":"2010-04-05T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"mcsweeneys-issue-34-launch-party-at-826la-and-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/04\/05\/mcsweeneys-issue-34-launch-party-at-826la-and-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"McSweeney&#8217;s Issue #34 Launch Party at 826LA and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>McSweeney&#8217;s Issue #34 Launch Party at 826LA and Stories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pick up  your reserved copy of McSweeney&#8217;s Quarterly #34 at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">enjoy  food and drink at Stories<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">stay for a  discussion &amp; signing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/\">McSweeney&#8217;s<\/a> contributors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickmcdonell.com\/\">Nick McDonell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/teddywayne.com\/\">Teddy Wayne<\/a> in the 826LA writing lab<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">with  musical guest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblastingcompany.com\/\">The Blasting Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Issue  34 features new stories of shipwrecks, kidnappings and bad vacations,  by (among others) Anthony Doerr, Daniel Handler, and T. C. Boyle. Also  included are new letters about wine and Hawaii from John Hodgman and  Sarah Vowell, twenty-one dead-on self-portraits drawn by the likes of  Michael Martone, Michel Gondry, and Sarah Silverman, and, beyond all  this, in a standalone volume, Nick McDonell&#8217;s stunning exploration of  the latest iteration of the war in Iraq&#8211;a ground-level account from  within the 1st Cavalry Division. The whole thing weighs in at just under  400 pages, and comes in its own custom-made double-sleeve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">RSVP  &amp; reserve your copy <a href=\"http:\/\/826lamcsweeneys34.eventbrite.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">826LA  East \/ The Echo Park Time Travel Mart &amp; Stories<br \/>1714 &amp; 1716 W  Sunset Blvd.<br \/>Los Angeles, California 90026<br \/>Monday, April 26th,  2010<br \/>7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FREE to  attend<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-169\" data-postid=\"169\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-169 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McSweeney&#8217;s Issue #34 Launch Party at 826LA and Stories Pick up your reserved copy of McSweeney&#8217;s Quarterly #34 at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart enjoy food and drink at Stories stay for a discussion &amp; signing with McSweeney&#8217;s contributors Nick McDonell and Teddy Wayne in the 826LA writing lab with musical guest, The Blasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,10,13,17,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}