I'm gonna take a broader definition of young than the Yale Series and say Peter Pereira and Rebecca Loudon. This is based on writing, though--never met them in person.
Also: Jhumpa Lahiri looks really, really beautiful in certain pictures, doesn't she? See the author photo on the paperback version of INTERPRETER OF MALADIES.
I think my big crush is Martha Cooley. I really must smooch with her at some point. This must happen.
I suppose this is my way of confessing that I do, in fact, enjoy fiction a great deal.
Aleksandar Hemon, fiction writer, but his writing is pure poetry. Do you know of him? Emigre from Sarajevo. Author of The Question of Bruno & Nowhere Man. The best fiction writer in English for whom it is a second language (his English was rudimentary when he arrived here about 12 years ago) since Joseph Conrad. (Or rather, Nabokov. Is there anyone else I haven't thought of?) Anyway, the guy can't write a boring sentence (Ok, that's what the NY Times book review says on his book jacket, & I agree). He was born in 1964. Does that qualify?
Edwidge Danticat hands downs and Olena Kalytiak Davis if my love is not available. Sad fact: I have a photograph of Edwidge tucked in a book on my writing desk so I can moon over her when I think I write crap. She is stunning.
I'm going with Mark Wunderlich and I'll second Olena Kalytiak Davis. And I keep hearing of this Charlie Jensen guy, but I can't make him out behind those glasses and that naughty smile.
Peter Covino. Terrance Hayes. Oni Buchanan. Dorothy Barresi (in a very earthy way).
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(I'm bi-poetic).
Sarah Vap
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I'm gonna take a broader definition of young than the Yale Series and say Peter Pereira and Rebecca Loudon. This is based on writing, though--never met them in person.
ReplyDeleteI have a little crush on Emily Lloyd. ;)
ReplyDeleteAlso: Jhumpa Lahiri looks really, really beautiful in certain pictures, doesn't she? See the author photo on the paperback version of INTERPRETER OF MALADIES.
I think my big crush is Martha Cooley. I really must smooch with her at some point. This must happen.
I suppose this is my way of confessing that I do, in fact, enjoy fiction a great deal.
I am going to be cliche'
ReplyDeleteDave Eggars.
I want to write a book like Heartbreaking.
Plus he understands the pulse of San Fransico better than any other author out there. (I think)
I dunno. I'm gonna have to agree with Em, and add Jeanette Winterson to the mix.
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Aleksandar Hemon, fiction writer, but his writing is pure poetry. Do you know of him? Emigre from Sarajevo. Author of The Question of Bruno & Nowhere Man. The best fiction writer in English for whom it is a second language (his English was rudimentary when he arrived here about 12 years ago) since Joseph Conrad. (Or rather, Nabokov. Is there anyone else I haven't thought of?) Anyway, the guy can't write a boring sentence (Ok, that's what the NY Times book review says on his book jacket, & I agree). He was born in 1964. Does that qualify?
ReplyDeleteEdwidge Danticat hands downs and Olena Kalytiak Davis if my love is not available. Sad fact: I have a photograph of Edwidge tucked in a book on my writing desk so I can moon over her when I think I write crap. She is stunning.
ReplyDeleteOh and that Jensen boy b/c he wears my glasses.
I'm going with Mark Wunderlich and I'll second Olena Kalytiak Davis. And I keep hearing of this Charlie Jensen guy, but I can't make him out behind those glasses and that naughty smile.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, how could I forget OK Davis?
ReplyDeleteCharlie, I might pick her over you....
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