From "The Best Novels You've Never Read"

DO EVERYTHING IN THE DARK, By Gary Indiana
In brief chapters, with the most scrupulously intense sentences—pitch perfect, pitch dark—this side of Renata Adler, Indiana conjures a hugely sad New York novel that feels at once state of the art and stunningly ancient. (It ends on September 8, 2001.) His epigrammatic wit makes the darkness bearable—don't we all know someone who could be described like this?: "If you ask Edie how she is, you don't have to say another word for at least an hour." —Ed Park


—full version of note that appeared in New York, May 28, 2007