The New Yorker has issued its Top 20 Under 40 article that names ZZ Packer as one of those 20. Besides the guy that wrote that weird novel that turned in a weirder movie about some Ukrainians that didn’t act like any Ukrainians I’m related to – I didn’t know anyone.
I do know, however, that ZZ Packer and I (Zed Zed as I call her being a Canadian) shared a list once, too. I’d love to prove it to you but sadly the InterWeb is a temporary thing. Making the Top Short Fiction Writers longlist in 2007 with ZZ doesn’t count a whole lot when you’re begging for a Starbucks and she’s in the New Yorker.
But, hey, we ride on anyway.
Congrats to you, Zed Zed. I always knew you’d make it big.
