The AV Club named SPEEDBOAT & PITCH DARK as one of their favorite books of the year in the category of “Best Reissues” saying in their write-up “these two books are triumphs now. They are evidence of what happens when messy life meets clean white page in exquisite prose and should be lingered over, not digested in gulps just to get to THE END.” New York Review of Books republished both books on March 19, 2013.