McSweeney's Issue 22 is a 2007 hardcover book by McSweeney's Books Staff that explores restriction in three parts: author, content, and form. Issue 22 is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction — of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes—poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, Michael Ondaatje, and DC Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet, who will then, thus inducted, do the same, and then again, and again, and so on until an appropriate moment. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes—F. Scott Fitzgerald!) provides a list of unused story premises first cataloged in The Crack-Up; his mission is completed by writers like Diane Williams, Nick Flynn, and Sam Lipsyte. In section three, finally, the president of France's (yes—France!) legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. The issue includes a section where poets like Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, Michael Ondaatje, and DC Berman start poet-chains by selecting a poem of their own and another poet's poem. The poets then take turns selecting each other's poems in a chain until they feel it's time to stop.