This issue's design, with its slipcase containing three separate softcovers, harkens all the way back to issue No. 8; but there's a twist -- this time around the books are held together with magnets rather than the industrial strength rubber band of yore.  And, you rightly ask, what is there about these books that they need magnets to keep them together?  Well, our guess is that their contents are so disparate that this was the only way.  The first book writes the unwritten stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.  "Come again?" you say:  Fitzgerald left notebooks at the time of his death and in these notebooks were 32 story ideas that he never realized.  Michelle Orange has assembled 17 writers -- including herself -- to take upon themselves the task of writing 16 of these stories (one twice); this book bears the fruit of this undertaking.  The second book is titled, The State of Constraint, and presents 17 new works from the Oulipo group.  The third and fattest of the books is The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford, which assembles, "one hundred favorite works of some of the best poets writing today" selected by a novel and ingenious method too involved to relate here but which is succinctly explained in Mr. Luxford's introduction.  All in all, this issue of McSweeney's looks very much like  a winner.