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Mallet compound locomotive of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco) via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

We know: it\u2019s hard to leave home. Your showerhead gets great water pressure; the guy at your bodega saves you the last copy of the Post<\/em>; the coffee people remember your name. Why skip town? Indeed, we\u2019re so irredeemably tethered to Manhattan that we haven\u2019t bothered to have a foreign office in forty years. And we\u2019re The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a new year, time to cast off our parochialism and see the world. Riches may lie in store. Legend tells, for instance, of a land called San Francisco, where paupers pan for gold, used bookstores line the streets, and the buses run on electricity. What is the state of letters in this paradise? Which fashions are in vogue among its citizenry? How\u2019s the ceviche? We can\u2019t say. But we know who can: McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>, a San Francisco institution since 1998.<\/p>\n

This January only, you can get a dual subscription<\/a> to The Paris Review<\/em> and McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> for just $75\u201420 percent less than two individual subscriptions. In other words, you\u2019ll have the comforts of home and a year of bicoastal exploration for less than it would cost us to get from Penn Station to Philadelphia, if that were something we were inclined to do.<\/p>\n

Get transcontinental with McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> and the Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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