Téa Obreht "Blue Water Djinn" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 August 2, 2010 issue We learn in the first paragraph that "Blue Water Djinn" is set in Egypt and a quick online search reveals beautiful images of Ras Um Sid (most of which are sneakily connected to advertisements for
Karen Russell "The Dredgeman's Revelation" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 26, 2010 issue This is the first of The New Yorker's 20Under40 stories that has left me feeling absolutely certain that I'll be following up with a longer work by the writer. (Not including the writers whose work
Dinaw Mengestu "An Honest Exit" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 12/19, 2010 issue The story begins with an imagined conversation: "Thirty-five years after my father left Ethiopia, he died in a room in a boarding house in Peoria, Illinois, that came with a partial view of the
Sarah Schun-Lien Bynum "The Erlking" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 5, 2010 "The New Yorker" This short story felt like a cobbler baked with ingredients courtesy of Alice Hoffman, Tom Perotta, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Oh, I know: some people hate it when someone says that a
Nicole Krauss "The Young Painters" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June 28, 2010 "The New Yorker" Mr. B.I.P. and I read this story together, and when we were done, he asked "Do the short stories you read always leave you with that many questions at the end?" No, they don't.
