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December 18th, 2009

Peter Rock: The Last Book I Loved, Bluets

The other day I ran into a student of mine who said “I just read an amazing book. I loved it. Maggie Nelson’s Bluets.” I nodded and agreed, since I had just read the same book, but I felt an interesting reaction rising inside me: No, no, you did not read it like I read it, did not love it like I loved it; it did not shake you so as it shook me. …more

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Peter Rock is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He is the author of the novels The Unsettling, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, Carnival Wolves, and My Abandonment.

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