20 under 40 stories from the new yorker
The "20 Under 40" issue of The New Yorker, published in 2010, featured 20 fiction writers under the age of 40 who were making significant contributions to the literary world. Here are the 20 writers featured in the issue, along with a brief summary of their work:
- Jennifer Egan - "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (novel)
- Jonathan Safran Foer - "Eating Animals" (non-fiction)
- Joshua Ferris - "Then We Came to the End" (novel)
- Nicole Krauss - "The History of Love" (novel)
- Salvatore Scibona - "The End" (novel)
- Keith Gessen - "All the Sad Young Literary Men" (short stories)
- Emma Straub - "Other People We Married" (short stories)
- Patrick Somerville - "The Brights" (novel)
- Karen Russell - "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" (short stories)
- Ben Marcus - "Notable American Women" (short stories)
- Yiyun Li - "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" (short stories)
- Dinaw Mengestu - "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" (novel)
- Wells Tower - "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" (short stories)
- Laura van den Berg - "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us" (short stories)
- Adam Johnson - "The Orphan Master's Son" (novel)
- Edith Pearlman - "Binocular Vision" (short stories)
- Téa Obreht - "The Tiger's Wife" (novel)
- Salvatore Pane - "The Hearts of Pine" (novel)
- C.E. Morgan - "The Sport of Kings" (novel)
- Benjamin Kunkel - "Indecision" (novel)
These writers were chosen for their innovative and influential work, which was pushing the boundaries of literary fiction. The issue was a celebration of the next generation of American writers, and many of these authors have gone on to achieve significant success and recognition in the literary world.