In my role as Books Editor for The Brooklyn Rail, I have a small sense of how much work my editors at The New York Times Book Review have to do. Each of the following book reviews has been improved by those fine editors. I’m deeply grateful to them. (Note: Some of these reviews appeared in the NYTBR’s ‘Fiction Chronicle’ and ‘The Shortlist’; those titles and authors have been listed separately.)
Bucky F*cking Dent, By David Duchovny
XO Orpheus, Edited by Kate Bernheimer
The Cool School, Edited by Glenn O’Brien
The Moth Anthology, Edited by Catherine Burns
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
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