Philipp Meyer "What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" That's why I started down this particular reading road, to sample the work of the ten writers whose names I did not recognize, like Philipp Meyer's, on the New Yorker's List
Jonathan Safran Foer "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" As with Joshua Ferris, I've read Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but have not read his more famous debut, Everything is Illuminated. It wasn't because I didn't want
Joshua Ferris "The Pilot" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" Joshua Ferris' first novel, was published in 2007 (And Then We Came to the End), and his second (The Unnamed) earlier this year. Unlike most people, I've read his second but not his first (although I hope to
Jeffrey Eugenides' "Extreme Solitude" The New Yorker - June 7, 2010 issue There has been some chatter about magazine subscriptions lately (at Inklings and Pickle Me This) and that's gotten me feeling even a little more guilty about not keeping up with my "New Yorker" issues (as opposed to the
I read Jennifer Egan's novel The Keep two years ago, so I was interested to see "Safari" in the index of the January 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. I hadn't realized she published a book of short stories before (and two other novels besides) and she also has
