The National Book Foundation announced their 5 Under 35 list of young fiction writers “selected by a previous National Book Award Finalist or Winner as someone whose work is particularly promising and exciting and is among the best of a new generation of writers”: Matthew Eck, The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions, 2007)Selected by Joshua Ferris Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Press, 2008)Selected by Jonathan Franzen Sana Krasikov, One More Year: Stories (Spiegel & Grau, 2008)Selected by Francine Prose Nam Le, The Boat (Knopf, 2008)Selected by Mary Gaitskill Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance (FSG, 2008)Selected by Jim […]