Last Book I Loved
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The Last Book(store) I Loved: BookCourt
If you’re like me, you work a remedial day job and you spend a lot of time at said day job cruising around the Internet and reading about books. You read The New York Times Books section daily, and you…
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Daniel Roberts: The Last Book I Loved, The Secret History
In 2010, half of which I spent in grad school, I read scores of novels and short story collections, and liked many of them. I adored Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. I couldn’t put down Let the Great World Spin or McCarthy’s C. But…
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Ryan Pittington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a year ago, when a lot of people read it – when I was seeing it in airports. I’m choosing to write about it now because, even though it’s…
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Joe Owens: The Last Book I Loved, The Wilding
Benjamin Percy can probably kick my ass. At least his prose gives me no reason to believe otherwise. Equal parts grit, subtlety and a silver-tongued bravura, Percy’s style makes me kind of want to call him a prosaic assassin if only prosaic…
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Jennifer Murray: The Last Book I Loved, The Physics of Imaginary Objects
It is late and I don’t know who I am anymore. My old life has been squeezed into an 8×10 square foot storage unit in Harlem and, barely two weeks into my voluntary exile in Buenos Aires, I have nothing…
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Ylajali Hansen: The Last Book I Loved, The Driver’s Seat
It was in Crete that I first came to curse short skirts. Six of them — three cotton, two denim — I had with me in a navy blue American Traveler suitcase, which sat, for the duration of my three-week…
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Arlene McKanic: The Last Book I Loved, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, the latest novel by the prolific Walter Mosley, is one of the best books I’ve ever read — and I’ve read a lot of books, including those from a fair amount by dead white…
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Ray Shea: The Last Book I Loved, The Sound of Building Coffins
When I first bought The Sound of Building Coffins, by Louis Maistros, I was already in the middle of another book. My girlfriend Linda was visiting me in New Orleans. Her semester at the University of Michigan had just ended,…
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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, The Master and Margarita
A poet named Homeless and his friend Berlioz, the editor of a literary magazine, sit on a park bench at the Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, drinking apricot soda and discussing a poem Homeless has written about Jesus.
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Tasha Cotter: The Last Book I Loved, The Hunger Games
Have you ever finished a book and wanted to shove it into anyone and everyone else’s hands so they can read it too? This is the state I’ve been in since completing The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s easily…
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The Last Book I Loved: Rat Girl
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that genius and creativity were literal spirits, both apart from and outside the artist’s body. The artist’s role was to serve as conduit, and one’s output could only be as good as the input.…
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Diane Sherlock: The Last Book I Loved, Nice Work
Nice Work is a very funny book. I love it that author David Lodge allows me, as reader, to relax and have fun. Having just finished writing a comic novel, I have a new appreciation for just how hard comedy…