20 Under 40
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20 Under 40

Stories from The New Yorker

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

20 Under 40

Stories from The New Yorker

About this book

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"—the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.
The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Téa Obreht. David Bezmozgis and Dinaw Mengestu offer clear eyed portraits of immigration and identity; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ZZ Packer, and Wells Tower offer voice-driven, idiosyncratic narratives. Then there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li, and the metaphysical fantasies of Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen, and Karen Russell.
Each of these writers reminds us why we read. And each is aiming for greatness: fighting to get and to hold our attention in a culture that is flooded with words, sounds, and pictures; fighting to surprise, to entertain, to teach, and to move not only us but generations of readers to come. A landmark collection, 20 Under 40 stands as a testament to the vitality of fiction today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. BIRDSONG: by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  6. THE WARM FUZZIES: by Chris Adrian
  7. SECOND LIVES: by Daniel AlarcĂłn
  8. THE TRAIN OF THEIR DEPARTURE: by David Bezmozgis
  9. THE ERLKING: by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
  10. THE PILOT: by Joshua Ferris
  11. HERE WE AREN’T, SO QUICKLY: by Jonathan Safran Foer
  12. AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE: by Nell Freudenberger
  13. THE ENTIRE NORTHERN SIDE WAS COVERED WITH FIRE: by Rivka Galchen
  14. THE YOUNG PAINTERS: by Nicole Krauss
  15. THE SCIENCE OF FLIGHT: by Yiyun Li
  16. AN HONEST EXIT: by Dinaw Mengestu
  17. WHAT YOU DO OUT HERE, WHEN YOU’RE ALONE: by Philipp Meyer
  18. TWINS: by C. E. Morgan
  19. BLUE WATER DJINN: by Téa Obreht
  20. DAYWARD: by ZZ Packer
  21. THE DREDGEMAN’S REVELATION: by Karen Russell
  22. THE KID: by Salvatore Scibona
  23. LENNY HEARTS EUNICE: by Gary Shteyngart
  24. THE LANDLORD: by Wells Tower
  25. About the Contributors
  26. Copyright