up-and-comer

Gillian in fact, when I blurbed “Gone Girl” — and now it’s kind of hilarious, it’s like once upon a time, I blurbed this third novel by the up-and-comer Gillian Flynn — she had, as a gift, sent me a copy of the book, “Until the Twelfth of Never,” and it’s the book that inspired the two miniseries based on the Betty Broderick story out of Southern California.

While she is an up-and-comer with a handicap that lists her as scratch golfer, placing her in the top 1% of women in the U.S., the American Junior Golf Association lists her 461st among girls.

Mobb Deep was one of the first New York rap groups to help establish the Alchemist as an in-demand up-and-comer.

A nod for McRae, an L.A.-based up-and-comer with a flair for the folk-pop confessional, is no doubt a long shot — at least until you remember that her indie label, Dead Oceans, made it into the race last year with Khruangbin.

There, he shared not just an apartment, but a living room separated by a sheet with another up-and-comer trying to make a name for himself: Nate Bargatze.