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September 26, 2004

Finally, I Get to Say I Knew Somebody Back When

by Ron Hogan

At least, I do if posting on the same USENET newsgroups qualifies as knowing somebody, though I'm actually one of the first to be highly skeptical of that proposition... In any event, the quite excellent bookblogger Sarah Weinman debuts as the Baltimore Sun mystery critic today. And between her and Suzy Hansen, I get the feeling I really ought to check out The Midnight Band of Mercy sooner rather than later...

Actually, speaking of people I knew back in the day, I was really glad to see the Matthew Klam byline on the NYT magazine's cover story on political bloggers, featuring my old HotWired colleague Ana Marie Cox. Klam's one of my favorites from that whole "20 Under 40" crowd the New Yorker touted five years ago, and it's good to have new things from him. Say, here's an item idea I'll toss out for any of you other bloggers: whatever happened to those twenty writers? (I can't even remember them all now...)

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Here's the "20 under 40":- Sherman Alexie, Donald Antrim, Ethan Canin, Michael Chabon, Edwige Danticat, Junot Diaz, Tony Earley, Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Allegra Goodman, A.M. Homes, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-Rae Lee, Rick Moody, Antonya Nelson, George Saunders, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace

Probably don't have to look very far to find most of these folks. Let's see. 3 Pulitzers + bestseller Franzen. Not to mention that almost everyone on the list is a major name in fiction these days. And quite a few still make very regular appearances in the New Yorker.

Posted by: Max at September 26, 2004 08:26 PM

That is actually a hell of a list. Who'd have thought the New Yorker would guess as well as they did?

Posted by: Sarah at September 26, 2004 09:38 PM

But think of who they missed...Jonathan Lethem, for one.

Where's Nathan Englander been?

Posted by: lessrog at September 29, 2004 02:38 PM
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