Here's a list to make you feel old: Granta's just announced its second list of 21 best American writers under age 35.
I've heard of Safran Foer but none of the rest, but I *want* to hear more of ZZ Packer. Talk about a great nik.
If an editor had breathed that name back when I was in the book biz I'd've given the thumbs up sans needing to read a single word.
Tempus Fugit note: Like the music, I suppose. One day you're embarrassingly au fait with the top bands and all 'em indie coves, the next you haven't a clue.
Those names up there are total mysteries to me which makes it all the more ironic that, back in the mists of, I once sat on a panel of earnest literary Turks entrusted with selecting a top 20 of pimply Brit scribblers of promise. I actually knew what I was doing, and I didn't just go for the guys I clubbed with or the damsels most likely to adorn my casting couch.
Quite a few them actually went on to deliver the goods.
2 comments :
An interesting list. Many expected, the others I look forward to reading. I just read at the NBCC blog that karen Russell was once upon a time a dating-blogger at nerve.com--my one-stop shop of high-class smut--writing under the handle "Strumpet22" and prmised by the site to deliver a 'creamy, neurosis-filled center." sounds yummy!
good comment; good tip ref nerve.com, the sort of site i'm on the constant search for. strumpet22 is a good nik. i once cornered domain name 'strumpert' for a busking site that never took off. yummy, indeed. thanks for the trouble of keeping corfucius one of the more discerningly commented around.
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