Five Young Fiction writers to watch (and read)

The 2009 National Book Foundation’s 5 (fiction writers) Under 35 Honorees Are:

Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin (Viking, 2008)
Selected by
Rachel Kushner, 2008 Fiction Finalist for Telex from Cuba

C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
Selected by
Christine Schutt, 2004 Fiction Finalist for Florida

Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
(HarperCollins, 2009)
Selected by
Salvatore Scibona, 2008 Fiction Finalist for The End

Karen Russell, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
(Vintage, 2006)
Selected by
Dan Chaon, 2001 Fiction Finalist for Among the Missing

Josh Weil, The New Valley (Grove Press, 2009)
Selected by
Lily Tuck, 2004 Fiction Winner for The News from Paraguay

 

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