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Summer Fiction Issue? No. It's a debutantes' ball, a marketing tool, a happening. You want real fiction, you'll have to look elsewhere. Whatever happened to The New Yorker?

John Wilson is editor of Books & Culture and editor-at-large for Christianity Today.

The New Yorker 's site may or may not still have excerpts from its fiction issue online.

Books & Culture's literature area has more on fiction trends—and includes an exclusive novel only available on the magazine's Web site.

Dave Eggers, referenced above, is editor of McSweeney's, which has its own fiction pieces. He's also the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, but that's a nonfiction work so it probably shouldn't even be in Related Elsewhere. In fact, Dave Eggers is only mentioned in passing above, and it doesn't seem fair to give him all this space in "Related Elsewhere" and no space at all to the authors who actually appear in The New Yorker fiction issue, does it? Still, these are "debut fiction" authors who don't have much about them online, while Dave Eggers is bordering on overexposure. It's really easy to find stuff about him online, so that's why he's the one to get a link.

Books & Culture Corner appears Mondays at ChristianityToday.com. Earlier Books & Culture Corners include:

Saint Teddy? | Yes, Roosevelt paid the usual presidential respects to Christianity, but didn't show much explicit personal devotion to it. (June 11, 2001)

History Bully | Christian scholars speak not-so-softly over a big sticking point: Theodore Roosevelt's faith. (june 4, 2001)

'Taken Up in Glory' | The Ascension has been forgotten in many Protestant churches, jettisoning an essential part of the Christian story. (May 21, 2001)

Who Won? Who Cares? | Skip the latest ballot reviews and read Italo Calvino's brilliant election novella "The Watcher." (May 14, 2001)

Infamy Indeed | John Gregory Dunne suggests imperialistic Americans got what they deserved at Pearl Harbor. (May 7, 2001)

Rantings of a Not-So-Primly Dressed Person With Too Much Time | The Chronicle of Higher Education infuses some not-so-subtle bigotry into its fetal-tissue research coverage. (Apr. 30, 2001)

Big Numbers, Big Problems | Christianity is in the midst of a massive global shift. But how much of a difference is it making in its new homelands? (Apr. 16, 2001)

DiIulio Keeps Explaining, But Is Anyone Listening? | At a media luncheon in Washington about Bush's faith-based initiatives, answered questions get asked one more time. (Apr. 9, 2001)

Public-izing Faith | Recent articles in Touchstone, Commonweal, and The New York Times serve as reminders that faith is not merely "a private thing." (Apr. 2, 2001)

How Can I Keep From Singing? | Arne Bergstrom has looked suffering square in the eye all over the world. Now he sings about hope. (Mar. 26, 2001)

To Poland, for an Evening | Once in a great while, a film like Kieslowski's The Decalogue discovers how to transport an audience. (Mar. 19, 2001)

Examining Peacocke's Plumage | The winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion rejects everything resembling Christian orthodoxy, but that doesn't stop him from co-opting the language. (Mar. 12, 2001)

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