I Just Read About That…

This week’s New Yorker contains a list of the 20 authors under age 40 that they predict we’ll be talking about for years to come.  Their criteria:

did we want to choose the writers who had already proved themselves or those whom we expected to excel in years to come? A good list, we came to think, should include both.

They have published eight of these authors in the current issue and are publishing the remaining 12 over the next 12 weeks.  I’m particularly excited that they chose to do this now.  Since I’m currently involved in two big book projects, it’s convenient to be able to read a whole bunch of short stories to intersperse between big posts.

I’ve read half of the authors already (likely in The New Yorker and McSweeney‘s).  And have heard of many of the others.   The list is below:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi (I have not read)
• Chris Adrian (I have read)
• Daniel Alarcón (I have not read)
• David Bezmozgis (I have read)
• Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (I have read)
• Joshua Ferris (I have read)
• Jonathan Safran Foer (I have read)
• Nell Freudenberger (I have not read)
• Rivka Galchen (I have read)
• Nicole Krauss (I have not read)
• Yiyun Li (I have not read)
• Dinaw Mengestu (I have not read)
• Philipp Meyer (I have read)
• C. E. Morgan (I have not read)
• Téa Obreht (I have not read)
• Z Z Packer (I have read)
• Karen Russell (I have not read)
• Salvatore Scibona (I have not read)
• Gary Shteyngart (I have read)
• Wells Tower (I have read)