Feel the Envy!
20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others Yes, New York Times Headline Writer , my envy is vast! It contains multitudes! Well, not quite multitudes. More like twenty little sharp needles of bitter, concentrated envy. Why why why New Yorker elitists didn't you pick ME ?!? I coulda been a contender! You know I'm out here, because I write to you every week to tell you how wrong you were to never publish a story by David Eddings ! Clearly, the only thing your editors appreciate are boring realistic stories about middle-aged professors who have affairs. Like the stories by Daniel Alarcón and Chris Adrian in Best American Fantasy . And Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's Madeleine Is Sleeping . And the title story of Wells Towers's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned . And all of Karen Russell's stories , certainly. Dirty realists! Nasty rotten winning smug literary brats! Baaaaaaah! ...
