Doctorow, E. L., Homer & Langley: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2009) ("Or maybe it was those moon walks of our astronauts that made Langley give up painting as insufficient to his rage. Can you imagine the crassness of it, hitting golf balls on the moon? he said. And that other one, reading the Bible to the universe as he circled around out there? The entire class of blasphemies is in those two acts, he said. The one stupidly irreverent, the other stupidly presumptuous." Id. at 135.).
Moore, Lorrie, A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2009) ("I went home and googled the n-word, opening up a sewer that went on forever." Id. at 238.).
Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness: Stories (New York: Knopf, 2009).
Sanow, Anne, Triple Time (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
