All posts by Gabe Durham

October 7th, 2009

Gabe Durham: The Last Book I Loved, I Remember

When I read a few dozen I Remembers in Joe Brainard’s I Remember, my brain starts mining itself without me telling it to. The canonical memories come first, but these set my brain on course to dustier ones it usually has no occasion to recall.

Most memories are not useful for survival, so when not forgotten completely, they’re stuffed in rooms that don’t see much light. It’s nice, stumbling on them. Embarrassing and unnerving too, depending on the memory, the way shame can stick. But I didn’t tell my brain to go looking, Brainard did. …more

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Gabe Durham lives in Northampton, MA. His fictions have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Hobart, The Mid-American Review, The Lifted Brow, and elsewhere. He's getting an MFA at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He gives away free words and music at gatherroundchildren.com.

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