This week, New York magazine marks the descent of book-industry tradeshow BEA on our town with "Book Hunt," a special section celebrating our city's literary culture. Or maybe celebrating our city's perpetual cutthroat, superficial search for the next lit it thing to fetishize and then discard! Same diff. Here, you can vote ("our tacky idea") on which promising young writer's pagelong excerpt is most deserving of... who knows! Something! We're partial to the one whose mom died and the Ethiopian. Still confused about whether it's fruitless and pointless to try to make it as a writer in this city? Let New York connect some dots for you.