Sarah Schun-Lien Bynum "The Erlking" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 5, 2010 "The New Yorker" This short story felt like a cobbler baked with ingredients courtesy of Alice Hoffman, Tom Perotta, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Oh, I know: some people hate it when someone says that a
Nicole Krauss "The Young Painters" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June 28, 2010 "The New Yorker" Mr. B.I.P. and I read this story together, and when we were done, he asked "Do the short stories you read always leave you with that many questions at the end?" No, they don't.
C.E. Morgan "Twins" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" The New Yorker's reviewer of C.E. Morgan's first novel, All the Living, wrote: "This lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love on a tobacco farm takes place in the mid-nineteen-eighties but, if not for glimpses of linoleum and
Salvatore Scibona "The Kid" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 The New Yorker The kid? He's five years old and lost in an airport. And he's weeping. Incessently. Gesturing and wandering, barely forming words through his tears and, later, refusing to speak at all. Nurses and clerks and various airport
Remember how I said that I started reading these stories because I wanted to get ahead of the reading game? That The New Yorker's list of 20Under40 was kind of a random pick for me to try to redirect my habit of ignoring similar lists (yes, I even mentioned Granta's
