American xenophobia means if you mention the name Albert Camus to 100 of your fellow citizens, 99 of them won't have a clue who you're talking about. The one person who does know is very likely related to Albert Camus, and even then they're probably probably going to hesitate before saying yes.
But good ol' Al is a stalwart standby here, mainly because of the way he died--yet he won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and made a name for his depressing view of the world and a fantastic ability to chain smoke.
So someone over at McSweeney's decided to reimagine Charlotte's Web, swapping out Charlotte the spider with Albert the philosopher.
And just like Camus, the story is short, to the point, and a little bit delightfully absurd.
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