McSweeney's, the Literary Quarterly, Publisher, purveyor of the unusual, and I don't know what-all, is having an online fire-sale of sorts. Though you may be unfamiliar with McSweeney's, they are an outlet for a lot of writers you probably do know. They publish works by the likes of Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Nick Hornby, David Byrne, Art Spiegelman, and Sarah Vowell (Vowell makes her Celebrity Series debut this season on February 8, with David Rakoff, in case you were looking for a CS tie-in...). It seems that McSweeney's distributor has gone out of business, leaving them $130,000 in the hole (more on the story here). They have responded by putting many items in their online catalog on sale at steep discounts (I just ordered the 1855 linguistic train wreck and unintended classic, English As It Is Spoke for half-price) and are even holding a rare items auction on e-Bay.
I don't know how long any of these links will be in operation - neither does McSweeney's, I'll gather - so I recommend acting quickly if you are likely to act at all.
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