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Category Archives: New York Times Book Review

Publications in The New York Times Sunday Book Review

21 Monday Sep 2020

Posted by Joseph Salvatore in Essays & Criticism, New York Times Book Review

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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

The Escape, by Adam Thirlwell

Generation A, by Douglas Coupland

Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same, by Mattox Roesch

The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave

Home Boy, by H.M. Naqvi

The Cry of the Sloth, by Sam Savage

Perforated Heart, by Eric Bogosian

Ugly Man, Dennis Cooper

The Hospital for Bad Poets, J. C. Hallman

Pygmy, by Chuck Palahniuk

Security, by Stephen Amidon

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

Body Surfing, Dale Peck

Out of My Skin, by John Haskell

 

 

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My latest assignment for the New York Times Book Review, June 5, 2016

10 Friday Jun 2016

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actor-novelist, Book Review, Boston Red Sox, Bucky Dent, Bucky F*cking Dent, Bucky_____Dent, David Duchovny, New York Times Book Review, New York Yankees, NYTBR, Red Sox vs Yankees 1978, The X Files

 

Growing up in the Boston area in the 1970s, I was a faithful Red Sox fan during a time when it was a genuine hazard to one’s psychic well-being to do so. One of my great regrets is that my father, a life-long New Englander and a Sox fan himself who died in 2001, never got to see what I saw in 2004, watching it, as I did, in my new home of NYC. Actor David Duchovny’s new novel is about fathers and sons and the things they wish they could have said to each other; it’s about love and death, and it’s about the Red Sox and the Yankees. So grateful to my editor at the New York Times Book Review for this summer reading assignment. See what I had to say.

BOOK REVIEW | FICTION

BUCKY ____ DENT
By David Duchovny
296 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.05Salvatore-blog427

AWP 2014: The Art of the Book Review, Friday, February 28, 2014, 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

21 Friday Feb 2014

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Dear friends attending AWP next week, let me invite you to the panel I’ll be participating on, “The Art of the Book Review.” I would be attending this one even if I weren’t a panelist, just to hear what Darcey Steinke, Michael Klein,Craig Teicher have to say on the subject. Thanks to the brilliant Tony Leuzzifor organizing and moderating the event. Honored to be included in such smart company. Please join us!

F217: The Art of the Book Review
Room 607, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Friday, February 28, 2014
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

Thousands of books are published each year. We are lead to many of them by engaging, knowing reviews. A well-written review will investigate the mysteries deep reading affords, and it will please as well as inform, because it has style. The five widely published writers/critics on this panel will discuss the review as a genre in its own right, a unique artistic form that contributes to the formation of taste, raises the level of public discourse, and establishes critical reputation.

New review for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Dec. 3rd, 2013

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Adam Gopnik, Ben Percy, Benjamin Percy, Damien Echols, Emma Straub, Glenn O'Brien, Joyce Maynard, Kate Bernheimer, L.O.L., Library of America, Norman Mailer, Peter Straub, Richard Price, The Moth, The Moth Anthology, The White Negro, West Memphis 3, West Memphis Three, XO Orpheus

A huge thanks to the editors at the New York Times Book Review for this assignment, which ran in Sunday’s paper. Lots of reading, true . . . but isn’t that the fun part? Anthologies make great gifts — especially when purchased from independent booksellers. Shop local, read global.#indiesfirst

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