20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"-the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.

The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; th...