Well, it’s time for us to get back from our lazy siesta. Actually we’ve been busy, but that is no excuse. There’s so much to analyze in the in the magazine of literary record.
Publisher’s Lunch tells us the following (see below), so as soon as the issue slides into our mailbox in Dubuque, we will have our special reaction.
By the way, isn’t it great that under 40 is the new standard for young writers, not 35 anymore? We sure hope they aren’t including photos of the writers like they used to. These are not spring chickens, people. The photos of contributors should wait until the swimsuit issue.
From Publisher’s Lunch:
The New Yorker has three stories from their new 20 under 40 issue–by Gary Shteyngart, Salvatore Scibona, and Rivka Galchen–available at open online links. And the editors of the magazine discuss their choices here. “What we have tried to do, in selecting the writers featured in this issue, is to offer a focussed look at the talent sprouting and blooming around us. These writers (stories by eight of them appear here; twelve more will follow, one at a time, in the next twelve issues) are hardly the only gifted storytellers of their generation. Some terrific candidates were excluded solely because they didn’t have a new piece of fiction available by our deadline.” But “these twenty men and women dazzlingly represent the multiple strands of inventiveness and vitality that characterize the best fiction being written in this country today.”
Tags: debut fiction, New Yorker
