Slate and the Whiting Foundation have teamed up for the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List (which they are also calling “We Second That”). While more of an organized promotional campaign than an award per se — “akin to being retweeted by your literary idol, or finding out that the classmate you have a crush on thinks you’re cute” — the idea is to recognize five second novels published over the past five years “whose first trips through the literary-pressdustrial complex may not have been all the authors hoped for.” It was inspired by a tweet by Porochista Khakpour last June (“Can someone […]