CURTIS SITTENFELD'S PREP: A NOVEL, NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE, 2005
SIGRID NUNEZ'S THE LAST OF HER KIND, NEW YORK: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2005
KATHRYN HARRISON'S ENVY: A NOVEL, NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE, 2005
DEIRDRE DAY-MACLEOD
I am haunted currently by the voice of Kate Moss plaintively singing background-"Is she more beautiful than me?"-on the notorious Babyshambles CD, on the single "La Belle et La Bête." Almost no one has actually listened to the music itself, but many of us have seen the videotape of Kate snorting coke in the studio during the recording sessions. In the grainy footage the waifish beauty who earns nine million dollars a year hunches over …