The e-Sleeper of the Year

This Wednesday morning, the site’s latest feature talked about time machines. Appropriate, I thought, since McSweeneys.net is one of the most effective cross-publishing ventures today—a kind of homage to futurism in a world where print publishing happily coincides with its little sister, e-publishing. As I started reading Philip Ryan’s acutely tongue-in-cheek analysis of the past as it relates to “the unknowable future,” this week’s thesis on publishing became even clearer: History outdoes itself.