In my new role as Book Review editor for fiction and poetry at The Brooklyn Rail, I have a sense of how much work faces my editors at The New York Times Book Review. Each of my following reviews at the NYTBR owes all to those excellent folks. (Note: Some of my reviews for The New York Times Book Review appeared in the Fiction Chronicle. Those books and authors have been listed separately.)
The Twelve (part two of The Passage vampire trilogy), by Justin Cronin
We The Animals, by Justin Torres
There Is No Year, by Blake Butler
Mary Ann In Autumn, by Armistead Maupin
Dogfight, A Love Story, by Matt Burgess
The November Criminals, by Sam Munson
Generation A, by Douglas Coupland
Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same, by Mattox Roesch
The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave
The Cry of the Sloth, by Sam Savage
Perforated Heart, by Eric Bogosian
The Hospital for Bad Poets, J. C. Hallman
After You’ve Gone, Jeffrey Lent
Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet, by Darrin Doyle
Pandora in the Congo, Albert Sanchez Pinol
The Unknown Knowns, Jeffrey Rotter
Future Missionaries of America, by Matthew Vollmer
Out of My Skin, by John Haskell
