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Ari Messer: The Last Book I Loved, The Changing Light at Sandover

I hate agreeing with Harold Bloom. But what can I say? I fall easily and oddly and often (if sceptically) into Bloom’s spells of (particular) historical illumination and (annoying) lucidity.

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The Last Book I Loved: The Glass Castle

The problem with reading a modern memoir is that often they suck. The influx of reality shows and confessional writing (ahem, Tori Spelling) has placed an emphasis on story and…

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Joel Arquillos: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I absolutely loved Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I never thought a story about the childhood I lived would make an interesting novel, but I…

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Kevin Sampsell: The Last Book I Loved, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City

I’d been hearing about Another Bullshit Night in Suck City since it came out a couple years ago, but late last year, after finishing my own memoir, I finally got…

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The Last Book I Loved: Runaway

I came late to the Alice Munro party but now that I’m here I’m planted and staying. This book floored me—the first story, yes, good, interesting, intriguing, but it was…

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The Last Book I Loved: Olive Kitteridge

I’m now reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and I’m awe-struck. This is exquisite writing and masterful story-telling. She creates a community of characters, all revolving around Olive in odd…

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The Last Book I Loved: Alina Simone, Unlovable

Unlovable (Fantagraphics Books) is a graphic novel by Esther Pearl Watson that is based on a diary the author found in a gas station bathroom in the 1980’s belonging to…

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The Last Book I Loved: The Braindead Megaphone

I think I would maybe like to be George Saunders.

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Scott Hutchins: The Last Book I Loved, The Easter Parade

It seems that every once in a while living writers pick a dead writer to gather around and champion, and this was definitely the case with Richard Yates around the…

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The Last Book I Loved: The Road

This semester, I decided to teach The Road by Cormac McCarthy. After I got my desk copy, I was sitting on BART, on my way home, and I started rereading…

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The Last Book I Loved: Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle is a crass and hilarious slice of growing up “different,” as fun to read today as it was in 1973. Molly Bolt is an unashamed…

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Damion Searls: The Last Book I Loved, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Collected Stories

I could never tell him apart from the other ones, Asch and Abramovitsh and Aleichem and the rest. And those titles like “Gimpel the Fool,” straight from the old country?…

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