The Last Book of Poetry I Loved: L.A. Liminal
The week I decided to move to Los Angeles, I read a book of poetry by a woman who had lived there for four years, hated it, left it for…
Last Book I Loved
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Priyanka Ghosh: The Last Book I Loved, Kartography
I am on a reading spree off and on and a lot of it depending on the state of my mind and my love affairs. If I am happy and…
Hannah Kingsley-Ma: The Last Book I Loved, The Great Gatsby
Lately, I’ve found myself in that kind of frenetic stage of higher education where I feel compelled to read all the books I’ve been told deeply matter. I figure reading…
Cortney Phillips: The Last Book I Loved, Property
I didn’t just love Valerie Martin’s Property—I devoured it, thought about it for weeks, forced it upon every single one of my reading friends, and even initiated a brief correspondence…
Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Making Toast
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt is a lovely memoir written by a prestigious author / journalist / columnist about how, following the death of his daughter, he and his wife…
Roxane Gay: The Last Book I Loved, This Is Not Your City
When I was a kid, I loved participating in my school’s science fair each year even though I did not necessarily have any aptitude for the scientific. My experiments were…
The Last Poem I Loved: “The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away” by Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey’s “The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away” resides in her second full-length collection, the wonderfully-titled Sad Little Breathing Machine. It is a poem about ponies, sadness, and the…
Robert Stubblefield: The Last Book I Loved, Cash
You can never know too much about Johnny Cash, one of the few icons who stands up to repeated listenings, readings, late-night and early morning considerations. You come home from…
Heather Davidson: The Last Book I Loved, The Broom of the System
I was always better at stories than at real life. Books are a religion I have found to be more lasting than any church-based one. You must read David Foster…
The Last Book I Loved: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
It is not often that a book brings me to tears, but this book had me weeping into my pillow for much longer than is considered appropriate. This novel by…
The Last Book I Loved: Reality Hunger
Despite what some might see as a fuming belligerence that characterizes our age (tea partiers, Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Sheen, etc.), I think we’re hampered by a cultural tendency to be…
Matthew Weinkam: The Last Book I Loved, About a Mountain
I often worry about over-hyping books. Nothing ruins a good novel or collection of stories quite as well as a glowing review. So when Nick Flynn calls John D’Agata’s latest…