The New Shortlist: BlackBook asked two very different, very established writers—London bad boy Sebastian Horsley and New York literary royalty Jay McInerney—to crack spines. HERE, they nominate the best new voices in American fiction.

Never mind his bollocks. With compelling, controversial works that call into question everyone from Pollock to Pacino, Norwegian punk artist Gardar Eide Einarsson reinvents the men of American myth.