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20 Under 40: Stories From The New Yorker (2010)

by Deborah Treisman(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374532877 (ISBN13: 9780374532871)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I love the New Yorker Fiction podcasts and am sad that there's only one new one a month. That's why I was so pleased to find this collection. It includes a nice range of authors and exposed me to variety of worlds. Even though not all of the stories were "awesome", I still really enjoyed it.My ratings:1. Birdsong (Adichie) - 32. The Warm Fuzzies (Adrian) - 23. Second Lives (Alacon) - 24. The Train of Their Departure (Bezmozgis) - 35. The Erkling (Bynum) - 26. The Plot (Ferris) - 37. Here We Aren't, So Quickly (Foer) - 38. An Arranged Marriage (Frudenberger) - 39. The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire (Galchen) - 110. The Young Painters (Krauss) - 311. The Science of Flight (Yiyun) - 212. An Honest Exit (Mengestu) - 413. What You Do Out Here When You're Alone (Meye... morer) - 414. Twins (Morgan) - 315. Blue Water Djinn (Obreht) - 216. Dayward (Packer) - 317. The Dredgeman's Revelation (Russel) - 318. The Kid (Scibona) - 219. Lenny Heart's Enice (Shteyugart) - 220. The Landlord (Tower) - 3
review 2: After being pretty underwhelmed by Granta's list of British authors under 40, I took the unscientific approach of reading this and seeing if it was better. It was. There could be a multitude of reasons behind that, only some of which is related i suspect to the writers being better. Story format choice, the yanks' superior ability in that format, a brilliant editor and chance (the stories from the two writers with the biggest reps - Krauss and Safran Foer - were the clearest duffers) probably help.I really wish the New Yorker did more anthologies, as their story picks are consistently mint. less

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