the last book i loved
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The Last Book I Loved: First Love and Other Stories
Falling in love with a book is as much about the book itself as reading it at the right time. I picked up First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev (Oxford Press) at a used bookstore in South Bend…
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John Madera: The Last Book I Loved, Fog & Car
I have a problem with fidelity. But don’t call me a book slut as I prefer the term “promiscuous bibliophile.” When so many seductive stories vie for my attention, how can I settle for just one?
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Finished with the BEA? Had the best time of your life at You’re Not Alone, the Rumpus, McSweeney’s and SMITHMAG event last night in New York, and not sure how you could ever top the experience?
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The Last Book I Loved: City of Thieves
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 flight to Hong Kong and I read the novel in…
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The Last Book I Loved: Bleak House
Bleak House is a magnificent book, surprising and delightful and heartbreaking and wild.
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Maddie Oatman: The Last Book I Loved, Divisadero
Last night I dreamed of apocalypse: the room filled with water for a couple of hours, and we were all submerged, floundering around in scuba suits and waiting for the world to return. The details of the nascent civilization that…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
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 like a dare, as in I dare you not to…
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The Last Book I Loved: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
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 town mayor by automobile, which is pretty great. Antrim is…
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Josh Bearman: The Last Book I Loved, The Incredible Yanqui
The Incredible Yanqui by Hermann Bacher Deutsch is the true story of the exploits of Lee Christmas, a tramp railroader, scoundrel, and soldier of fortune who wound up helping the United Fruit Company colonize central america as a corporate fiefdom.…
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Jenny Davidson; The Last Book I Loved, Yes, My Darling Daughter
At this time of the school year I am basically calling on all the powers of the novel to fend off incipient overwork-driven nervous breakdown – I roam around my apartment looking through piles of books that have been sent…
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The Last Book I Loved: You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
Julia Phillips was the first female producer to ever win an Oscar. She won it in 1973, when she was 29, for The Sting, and then went on to produce Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A…
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Todd Zuniga: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
For a great while I’ve been away from reading short stories of real length—instead flipping back through Etgar Keret’s The Nimrod Flipout for three-page jolts of inspiration. But when I read Tower’s “Retreat” at a cafe in Brooklyn, I couldn’t…