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WELL LOOKEE HEEAH, SON

Ehhhh, we were going to do this whole spiel in an exaggerated Kentucky Colonel sort of diction but working out the phonetics is more taxing than we thought. We'll just leave that title up there as a reminder of our own limitations. What's important is that we just got a big stack of the December Fiction Issue and that means if you live in a major American city, similar stacks should be accumulating this weekend at a bar/store/restaurant near you. If you are willing to brave the weather in search of a copy, these are the treasures that await you: -A brand-new short story by Richard Matheson, the science fiction legend who wrote

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I Am Legend

,

Stir of Echoes

, and all the best

Twilight Zone

episodes. -An investigation into the secret identity of the guy who wrote

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

. -Four long comics by Dash Shaw, Lisa Hanawalt, Sammy Harkham, and Johnny Ryan that can best be described as "delicious." -Spooky tarot readings for Rivka Galchen and Gary Shteyngart. -A roundtable discussion of poetry that is a million times more interesting than we know that sounds (it involves Eileen Myles and the greatest living poetry editor). -Scintillating interviews with the likes of Iain Banks, Annie Proulx, and William Gass. -A response to a fan letter our managing editor wrote to Berkeley Breathed when she was 12. -Miranda July's suggestions for what you should read. -Snapshots of Jim Shepard and Pete Dexter playing with their dogs. -A drawing of a photo of a bookshelf that is full of very good books. -Alan Moore! -An interview with

The Wire

's David Simon that is so long and all-encompassing we can't even remember how many pages it takes up. (Definitely more than eight). -And 14 more pieces of fiction by people we think are currently the best at writing. We'll start posting everything from the issue next week, but if you want to one-up all those snooty "netizens" in your town, head

here

to find out where you can pick up a copy in the flesh.