The Last Book I Loved: The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace was a writer with whom I was determined, out of principle, not to fall in love.
Last Book I Loved
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C Clark: The Last Book I Loved, The Death of Artemio Cruz
A novel written in 1962 found its way into my hands for the first time during the summer of 1997. The Death of Artemio Cruz, written by Carlos Fuentes, was…
H. William Davis: The Last Book I Loved, Housekeeping
The winter is rough, and I live under a bridge hanging over a creek which freezes solid and blocks me from the rest of the world. You can’t rush past…
The Last Book I Loved: Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
To live as an outsider or outlaw is a lonely endeavor, but a group of outsiders becomes a community.
Molly Colin: The Last Book I Loved, My Life as a Russian Novel
Let’s say I’m on a French train enroute to meet my boyfriend, a prominent French writer. I open that day’s copy of Le Monde and there’s a controlling, erotic story…
Kyenne Williams: The Last Book I Loved, Let’s Take the Long Way Home
I knew I would like this book, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, because it’s about a friendship between two women that was deep and marvelous (the book and the…
Matthew Stranach: The Last Book I Loved, Night Work
I do not play hockey. I do not watch hockey on TV. I have no memories of youthful visits to bone-cold arenas at five o’clock in the morning to thwack…
Dan Moreau: The Last Book I Loved, Dogwalker
I bought Dogwalker on June, 27, 2004 at 10:04 p.m. for $3.98. The cashier’s name was Eric, but I don’t remember him. I know this because, for some reason — I was…
Devin Bambrick: The Last Book I Loved, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Nick and I sat and watched movie trailers for hours, complaining about the buffering speed and talking like two people who have been reading the same things for a decade:…
The Last Book I Loved: Room
I sat on my surfboard dangling my feet into the cold ocean, as the setting sun brightened the sky with pinks and oranges. Out on the water, away from the…
Amy Bergen: The Last Book I Loved, The Interrogative Mood
You could read this book about three hundred times and not get bored. “Are you given comfort or made nervous by ball bearings?… Do you tolerate speech impediments in newscasters?……
Arlene McKanic: The Last (Poetry) Book I Loved, Snapshots from Istanbul
First of all, I have no idea how to review a book of poetry. Not formally anyway, because I don’t know the difference between an iambic pentameter or a dithyramb. …