Cross-Generational Appeal

Fresh back from AWP—no, exhausted back from AWP—I am struck this morning by the fact that various of McSweeneys (see, for example, Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid) excite the same pleasure in both the adult and the child halves of our family as the candidacy of Barack Obama.
R scoots other ordinary looking books aside, pausing only at an issue of n + 1. Look, she says, pointing to the headline: Lower the voting age!