the last book i loved
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Willa A. Cmiel: The Last Short Story I Loved, “The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea”
I read J.M.G Le Clézio’s “The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea” over the course of an average day—during meals, on the subway, during slow periods at work—and was afraid to let it end. When it did, I read…
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Charlie Crespo: The Last Book I Loved, Infinite Jest
After reading David Foster Wallace’s short story collection, Girl With Curious Hair, I was determined to read Infinite Jest. I found Wallace’s prose to be unlike anything I had ever read before and even though he used structures or techniques…
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Daniel Pearce: The Last Book I Loved, Mr. Bridge
Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge—a companion piece to his earlier novel, Mrs. Bridge—offers a rare sort of company. And it’s unexpected company: Its protagonist, after all, is a tacitly-but-virulently xenophobic, politically conservative, emotionally acerbic lawyer living in Kansas City during…
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Dave Doyle: The Last Book I Loved, Perv–A Love Story
I am not a pervert. Well, I don’t think I am. At least not all the time–you know, it’s not like I’m consumed by depravity or anything. I guess all I’m trying to say is that perverts are people, too.…
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Richard LeComte: The Last Book I Loved, The Assassin’s Song
Having read several textbooks in library science and young adult novels over the past few months, my memory turns eagerly back to The Assassin’s Song by M. G. Vassanji, which I read last year. This book mixes the yearnings of…
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Michelle Threadgould: The Last Zine I Loved, Cometbus #52: The Spirit of St. Louis
I grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of a man who arguably loved jazz music more than he loved me. So when I say that I grew up in San Francisco, what I really mean is that I spent…
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Ken Krimstein: The Last Book I Loved, The Leopard
Loved? Big word. I’ve liked a lot of books. But loved? And then, what was the last one I loved? I’m not sure I’ve ‘loved’ more than three books in my life, and one of them was the first one…
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Drew Toal: The Last Book I Loved, I am Not Sidney Poitier
My only previous exposure to Percival Everett had been his book American Desert, which I had liked but not loved. So it was with middling expectations that I picked up his last novel, I am Not Sidney Poitier.A day or…
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The Last Book I Loved: Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk
So this book isn’t totally obscure, having won the 1997 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, but Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk still deserves a dose of the spotlight. A blurb from Gregory Orr describes Szporluk as a kind of…
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Victoria Marini: The Last Book I Loved, The Testament of Gideon Mack
The books I love and have loved in the past I have chosen almost always by the recommendations of others.The last book I loved, I loved with an added fever and thrill of having discovered it on my own. The…
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The Last Book I Loved: I Remember
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 set my brain on course to dustier ones it usually…
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The Last Book I Loved: 8: All True: Unbelievable
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 love The Pharmacist’s Mate,” which is the first book Amy…