What comes next and how to like it, by Abigail Thomas

I feel like I've been reading a lot of buzz books lately: The Primates of Park Avenue; The Unbearable Relevance of Beauty; Outline. You know the books I'm talking about: the ones that get mentioned in Slate and Salon and reviewed in the New York Times. The one everyone talks about (at least everyone on the literary book blogs) for a few months, and then…