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Last Book I Loved

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The Last Book I Loved: The Feverhead

  • Stephen Sparks
  • October 30, 2009
I’m a promiscuous lover of books. I treat each one as if it’s the only—there will never be another after, there were none before. This is the last book I read and the last book I loved.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Made Flesh” by Craig Arnold

  • Dan Hunt
  • October 17, 2009
I met the poet Craig Arnold only once. It was late February or early March of this year.
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The Last Book I Loved: I Remember

  • Gabe Durham
  • October 7, 2009
When I read a few dozen I Remembers in Joe Brainard’s I Remember, my brain starts mining itself without me telling it to. The canonical memories come first, but these…
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The Last Book I Loved: 8: All True: Unbelievable

  • Zoë Ruiz
  • October 7, 2009
I would not say to everyone, “You must read Amy Fusselman’s 8“, and I would not say, “You will love it!” I would however say to most anyone, “You will…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Two Kinds of Decay

  • Catherine Lacey
  • October 6, 2009
...these hot coals of her story burned my hands as I tried to hold them.
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The Last Book I Loved: Inner China

  • Leni Zumas
  • August 12, 2009
Eva Sjödin’s poem-novel maps in swift, uncanny sentences the dark marvels of being little. I am a sucker for tales of sisters, especially when an older must defend a younger…
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The Last Book I Loved: Walking Dead Comics

  • Bucky Sinister
  • August 3, 2009
I’ll tell you something that’s total crack, is the Walking Dead Comics. I’ve been reading a lot of comics lately, and that one is amazing. Also, there’s a guy named…
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The Last Book I Loved: Hunts In Dreams

  • Shya Scanlon
  • July 1, 2009
In the end, Hunts In Dreams is not a particularly deep book. But it's rich, strange, comforting and sad all at once.
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The Last Book I Loved: Honored Guest

  • Tao Lin
  • June 24, 2009
One of my favorite books is the story-collection Honored Guest (2004) by Joy Williams.
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The Last Book I Loved: City of Thieves

  • David Ebershoff
  • May 19, 2009
The last book I loved is CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff.  I loved it for a simple, yet powerful reason: it transported me.  I was on a 15.5 hour…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford

  • Deb Olin Unferth
  • May 13, 2009
This is one damn weird love story. This is one strange quest. This is one bizarre boat. These are a couple of strange characters we’ve got here. This book feels…
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The Last Book I Loved: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World

  • Lincoln Michel
  • May 12, 2009
I’m not sure why it took me a bit to get into Donald Antrim’s Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, because the book begins with the quartering of the…
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