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.

Once a promising keyboardist for bands like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, writer Tony O’Neill fell into a black hole of heroin and crack addiction. Now, with his new novel Down and Out on Murder Mile (HarperCollins) -- a tragic but hilarious redemption story about two addicts who move from Los Angeles to London’s corrupt “murder mile” -- the Brooklyn-based scribe embraces his second chance and revisits the demons of his drug-fueled past.

Yesterday, after landing in Newark International, English writer and recovering drug addict Sebastian Horsley—decked out at the time in top hat, three-piece suit, and nail polish, of course—was denied entrance into America. The reason? "Moral turpitude," according to Horsley, who was (almost) in town to promote his latest book Dandy in the Underworld. When we emailed the controversial memoirist to find out what went down, he replied, "I am illegal my dear Nick. Xxx" And then, minutes later, he followed up his first message with a press release, and the following quip: "Home of the free, but sadly not of the depraved." Immigration imbroglio aside, we have a feeling that Horsley will be just fine—and yes, dandy. Full press release after the jump! —N.H. READ MORE