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McSweeney's is a '', and the new quarterly DVD magazine, '' Wholphin ''. The publishing house also runs two additional imprints, Believer Books and the Collins Library . On the name of the organization, Eggers says: "(My family) would always get letters from someone named Timothy McSweeney ... He claimed to be my mother's long-lost brother...(Letters) would always include flight plans, like he was planning on coming to visit. I don't know if he's real or not. My relatives deny it, but who knows?"http://flakmag.com/features/eggers.html McSweeney's has helped launch the careers of many young writers, but it has also published the works of well established authors such as Michael Chabon , Stephen King , and Joyce Carol Oates . The band One Ring Zero gained notoriety by becoming the house band for the New York McSweeney's store. As a result of this relationship, they gained the trust of many prominent McSweeney writers and solicited their lyric-writing help in the ORZ album "As Smart As We Are." McSweeney's was also the subject of the They Might Be Giants song "The Ballad of T. McSweeney." Books published under McSweeney's Rectangular's imprint include:
In December 2006, As Of June 2007 , McSweeney's is holding a sale and EBay auction to try to make up the difference.http://mcsweeneys.net/books/bankruptcy.html[http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtimothymcsweeneysQQhtZ-1 McSweeney's eBay Auction] REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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