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BookSmart Tulsa helps pick New Yorker's best young writers
Published: 6/3/2010 1:47 PM
Last Modified: 6/3/2010 1:47 PM

Well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration. But three of the authors who made The New Yorker's list of what it believes are the best up-and-coming fiction writers were recent guests of BookSmart Tulsa events.

Rivka Galchen, author of "Atmospheric Disturbances," Salvatore Scibona, who wrote the novel "The End," and Wells Tower, whose debut book was the acclaimed short story collection, "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned," were among the "20 Under 40" list that will be included in the New Yorker issue that is out Monday.

The others on the list are:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Adrian, Daniel Alarcón, David Bezmozgis, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nell Freudenberger, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li, Dinaw Mengestu, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, Téa Obreht, Z Z Packer, Karen Russell, and Gary Shteyngart.

The New York Times story on the New Yorker's upcoming fiction issue quotes New Yorker editor David Remnick as saying that, other than being under the age of 40, the authors on this list have little in common.

“If they had too much in common, it would be really boring,” he said in an interview with the Times. “This is not an aesthetic grouping. The group is a group of promise, enormous promise. There are people in there that are very conventional in their narrative approach, and there are people who have a big emphasis on voice. There are people who are in some way bringing you the news from another culture.”

BookSmart Tulsa's next event will be June 8 at the Circle Cinema, 12 S. Lewis Ave., when it presents Colin Beavan, author of the blog turned book turned movie "No Impact Man."


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