![]() ![]() The good news: not only was Panorama City excellent but so, too, was Wilson’s first novel, The Interloper, the latter which I read out of conscientiousness and admired for its taut, propulsive conceit. The one and only time I ended up serving on a jury, I was voted foreperson. Speaking of a writer’s responsibility to review her peers, Lorrie Moore, in her introduction to her nonfiction collection See What Can Be Done, likens it to jury duty. What if I didn’t do the book justice? It also seemed consequential to review a potentially up-and-coming writer’s sophomore effort. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was given twelve-hundred words to work with, which translates into a full page of space-a vast amount of media real estate. As it happened, my second book had just appeared in paperback, and that, I figured, had entered into the editors’ calculus. With summer near its end, our staff has suggested some books to take with you over the Labor Day weekend, and beyond.īack in 2012, the New York Times Book Review asked me to review Panorama City, Antoine Wilson’s second novel. ![]()
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