PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Preparation for the Next Life 2015 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize (given to authors of first or second books) 2015 New York City Book Award (Presented by the Society Library) 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, Preparation for the Next Life References External links "Jimmy", short story by Lish (excerpt from Preparation for the Next Life), Paris Review no. 210, Fall 2014 Tyrant Books Long interview with Lish in The Brooklyn Rail Living people American fiction writers 21st-century American novelists Writers from Brooklyn Phillips Academy alumni PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Harvard University alumni Novelists from New York (state) 1972 births People from Sunset Park, Brooklyn