Last Book I Loved
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LAST BOOK I LOVED: THE DOG STARS
Elizabeth Stark tells us why Peter Heller’s THE DOG STARS is the last book she loved.
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The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
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Last Book I Loved: Thieves I’ve Known
Thomas H. McNeely explains why Tom Kealey’s THIEVES I’VE KNOWN is the last book he loved.
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The Last Book I Loved: Tradition
Antonia Crane explains why TRADITION by Marci Blackman is the last book she loved.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Lists of the Past
Elizabeth Byrne explains why THE LISTS OF THE PAST by Julie Hayden is the last book she loved.
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Cost of Living
Anna March explains why THE COST OF LIVING by Rob Roberge is the last book she loved.
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The Last Book I Loved: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard
It was strange. Volume One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume memoir/novel was, with one traumatic exception near the end, the story of a typical young man. He had a typical childhood broken up only by a typical divorce. He was…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Satan Says” by Sharon Olds
Therein lies the brilliance of “Satan Says”: Olds’s Satan is not villainous because he urges the speaker to denounce her parents … but because he is too obtuse to comprehend the uselessness of such denunciations to a curious intellect.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “So the Pilot Says Over the Intercom” by David Hernandez
July fifth. My girlfriend and I are waiting on Chinese food to be delivered while the neighborhood kids work their way through buckets of excess firecrackers and I come across a book I thought I’d lost—Always Danger by David Hernandez,…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein
I’m quite sure that if I lived when Gertrude Stein did, I would have not enjoyed her person—the pronouncements, the relentless self-promotion, the blatant self-absorption (“I am a genius”). If I lived in her time I probably, like so many…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Ganymede,” by Michael D. Snediker
Sometimes, it’s easy to think of the poem as a conversation one might have in a bar. And sometimes, to follow the metaphor through, the poem is a surprising conversation, at once sweet and sexy and utterly—thank god—smart. So when…
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The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Blood Sugar by Nicole Blackman
It’s fitting that Nicole Blackman leads into the poems of Blood Sugar with a quote from the confessional poet W.D. Snodgrass: “I am going to show you something very ugly. One day it may save your life.” The chief construct…