8. Sarah Ruhl "Dead Man's Cell Phone"

7. Richard Greenberg "Take Me Out"

Doing a buck in the latest drop:

"'Eileen Myles Reads You Lucky Ducks Some Poems'"

6. Jerry Saltz "Seeing Out Loud"

5. David Lindsay-Abaire "Rabbit Hole"

4. David Mamet "Glengarry Glen Ross"

3. Erik Larson "The Devil in the White City"

2. Anne Carson "If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho"

1. Joan Retallack "Memnoir"

...and sometimes "Single Ladies"

No favorite book this year. While I had a lot more time to read, I spent much of 2008 working on a new book and perversely didn't get to many of the novels you would expect to find on a list of this kind (see "2666," "Home," "The End," "A Mercy," the-started-then-stopped [because of moving] "Netherland").

Plus pretty much everything I encountered, book-wise, film-wise, clothing-wise, otherwise was just playing catch up with "A Milli" (and sometimes "Single Ladies") anyway.