Hunter Kennedy started The Minus Times in 1992, "when the Internet was still science fiction and phones had cords attached to walls," as a typewritten one-sheet illustrated with newspaper clippings that you could pick up for free if you knew where to find it. It eventually grew into a full-fledged literary magazine (still laid out by typewriter) where you could find an analysis of the sexual symbolism of The Andy Griffith Show by poet Joe Wenderoth alongside cartoons by Dave Eggers or short fiction from Sam Lipsyte and Wells Tower. (In an introduction, Man Booker nominee Patrick deWitt explains how getting his first stories into the magazine kept his writing career moving forward.) It's been three years since the last issue, but now that it's here, Kennedy has bundled it together with all the preceding content for an overview of a frequently unsettling but always provocative strain of underground American literature in the new millennium. --Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.com