I regularly receive emails from the literary magazine, McSweeney’s, who also publish The Believer, not to mention numerous books. Today’s email was particularly interesting. Apparently, the Bay Bridge in their hometown of San Francisco is closed for repairs. A chunk fell down on Tuesday and hit a truck and several cars. Now McSweeney’s is dedicating a large part of its next issue to an in-depth investigation into the famous bridge.

Here’s the word from McSweeney’s:

“It seems like as good a time as any to announce that our next issue will feature a genuinely groundbreaking report, written by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Bob Porterfield and structural-engineer-turned-reporter Patricia Decker, on just what has brought our dear bridge to where it is today. Our correspondents, with the help of San Francisco’s Public Press, have been digging into this for months, following the money through Chinese steel refineries and Sacramento bureaucracies, and what they’ve found will recast the way Tuesday’s bridge-breaking and the last decade of bridge-mending is understood. It’s an incredible story, and we’re going to shed more light on it than any investigation to date.”

A different bridge, a different city, a different country, but a similar story to Porte Parole’s investigation into the collapse of the Concorde overpass related in Sexy béton – the drive to understand the infrastructure that we use every day.

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