McSweeney’s Author Cards, Collect ‘Em All!

kottke.org August 27, 2025 By Jason Kottke

baseball card-style cards of Joan Didion and Octavia Butler

baseball card-style cards of WEB Du Bois and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

baseball card-style cards of Judy Blume and Toni Morrison

I love these author cards from McSweeney’s in the style of baseball cards.

For years you’ve seen athletes, web-slinging superheroes, orcs, and pocket monsters get the trading-card treatment, while you’ve sat in your room hoping upon hope that the heroes of magical realism or giants of New Journalism would get their own. The wait is over, friends.

They have three sets: the first set is a part of their 74th issue, series 2, and series 3. The authors featured in the sets include Octavia Butler, Judy Blume, Lauren Groff, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, George Saunders, Sarah Vowell, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Tags: books · McSweeneys · remix · sports

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baseball card-style cards of Joan Didion and Octavia Butler

baseball card-style cards of WEB Du Bois and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

baseball card-style cards of Judy Blume and Toni Morrison

I love these author cards from McSweeney’s in the style of baseball cards.

For years you’ve seen athletes, web-slinging superheroes, orcs, and pocket monsters get the trading-card treatment, while you’ve sat in your room hoping upon hope that the heroes of magical realism or giants of New Journalism would get their own. The wait is over, friends.

They have three sets: the first set is a part of their 74th issue, series 2, and series 3. The authors featured in the sets include Octavia Butler, Judy Blume, Lauren Groff, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, George Saunders, Sarah Vowell, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Tags: books · McSweeneys · remix · sports

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