Last Book I Loved
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David Cotrone: The Last Book I Loved, The Disappointment Artist
“But that kid who still can’t decide which of the two futuristic epics to let win the struggle for his mortal soul, the kid who left the question hanging, the kid who partly invented himself in the vacuum collision of…
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Nancy Lili Gonzalez: The Last Book of Poetry I Loved, The Network
Jena Osman’s The Network is the best freaking thing I’ve read all year! Talk about brain arousal, wow. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It gave me nightmares the way falling asleep in school only could.
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The Last Book I Loved: What Was She Thinking?
I don’t usually see the movie and then read the book, but after reading Zoe Heller’s incredible character work in The Believers I had to read What Was She Thinking?, which was made into the Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett…
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Sarah Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, Something is out there.
Green is the dominant color on the jacket of Richard Bausch’s latest short story collection. A red-headed woman (or girl; it’s hard to tell which) stands in the foreground at the bottom right corner.
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The Last Book I Loved: I Love You More Than You Know
I moved to New York City in July. I was unemployed, rejected from graduate school, and had $6.29 in my bank account. It seemed logical. I’d spent the last year incapable of making the transition from college to the “real…
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Joseph Michael Owens: The Last Book I Loved, The Instructions
I flew to Chicago for a single night in October, just to hear Adam Levin read from the last book I truly loved, The Rumpus’ own Book Club pick, The Instructions. At the time of Levin’s Chicago reading, I was nearly…
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Jeffrey Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The last book that I truly loved reading was John Vaillant’s book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The story is set in the Russian taiga (boreal forest) village of Sobolonye near Vladivostok, Russia’s secretive Pacific port, an…
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Sara Young: The Last Book I Loved, Poop
I was recently given a book called Poop by Sam Sharpe. It is a small, handmade, self-published book with a series of visual puns that run through its pages, one of which involves some confusion between the words “luncheon” and “lynching.”
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The Last Book I Loved: Troubling Love
According to Europa Edition’s website, Elena Ferrante, one of Italy’s most important and acclaimed contemporary authors, has successfully shunned public attention and kept her whereabouts and her true identity concealed. I understand. Troubling Love is a brilliant rendering of a…
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Christopher Forsley: The Last Book I Loved, Blue Movie
Every time I watch a porno—whether it’s Lesbians in the Produce Section or Cheerleader Tryouts with Coach Lester—I start critiquing the plot, the acting, and even the lighting. Why doesn’t, I ask myself, a real director make a porno, a…
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Scott Onak: The Last Book I Loved, Satori in Paris
I didn’t need any books: I was finishing up grad school in Idaho and moving to—well—that wasn’t quite known to me. But here was a building on the Latah County Fairgrounds full of books, and here was Satori in Paris…
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Sara Habein: The Last Book I Loved, Midnight Picnic
How our living selves affect the afterlife has been, and will continue to be, a matter of debate. In literature alone, countless stories have explored the stages of death, of grieving, and that of otherworldly retribution. In Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca…