Leave it to attorney-author Michael Kun to endow his hilarious new novel about the nature of truth, “You Poor Monster” (MacAdam/Cage, 340 pp., $23), with copious endnotes. Thirty-three pages of them.

You shouldn't personify or feel pity for games—developers? Certainly, they're people. But the game itself is not alive, and it doesn't have feelings, and any sentimentality or nostalgia you feel for ...