This July, The New York Times Book Review published a list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, chosen by 503 literary luminaries.The No. 1 book was “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena ...

Good Gossip, by Jacqueline Carey. This collection of interconnected short stories is set in late-1980s Manhattan, a done-to-death milieu that Carey revives with metered doses of irony.