Thomas Pluck's website tells us he's slung hash, worked on the docks, and even swept the Guggenheim museum (but not as part of a clever heist). He hails from Nutley, New Jersey, we're advised, home to criminal masterminds Martha Stewart and Richard Blake, but has so...

“I went east to Greenwich and turned south on familiar cobblestone, heading toward the silver Twin Towers, their crowns hidden in low-lying clouds.” That’s the last sentence of the penultimate chapter of Closing Time, Jim Fusilli’s debut as a novelist, and it...