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the last book i loved

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David Peak: The Last Book I Loved, Birch Hills at World’s End

  • David Peak
  • May 31, 2012
Every high school has a kid like Erik. He’s sharp, dark, and charming. Add in the fact that he has his own car and impeccable taste in Scandinavian metal, and who better…
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Adam Parker Cogbill: The Last Book I Loved, Abbott Awaits

  • Adam Parker Cogbill
  • May 29, 2012
I am as guilty as any other reader I know of opening or hijacking conversations with some derivation of, “You know what you should read?” I can’t help myself; I…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Cat’s Table

  • Lydia Melby
  • May 24, 2012
For years when I was young I would crouch beneath the dinner table to watch my parents drink after-dinner coffee and wine with an ever-changing group of scientists—a tall man…
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The Last Book I Loved: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • Molly McArdle
  • April 27, 2012
There is a passage in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn where Francie Nolan, the book’s protagonist, is described as the sum of many parts. A genetic and experiential palimpsest, Francie:
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Sarah Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, The Subterraneans

  • Sarah Simpson
  • April 26, 2012
Truman Capote famously said that what Jack Kerouac did wasn’t writing, but typing. I take just as much offense today to this slander as I did ten years ago as…
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Rimas Uzgiris: The Last Book of Poetry I Loved, The Living Fire

  • Rimas Uzgiris
  • April 18, 2012
I had read the book months ago. And then, standing in front of Edward Hopper’s “The House by the Railroad” at the Museum of Modern Art, I found myself trying…
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Molly O’Brien: The Last Book I Loved, White Teeth

  • Molly O'Brien
  • April 17, 2012
I was ten years old when 1999 became 2000. My knowledge of the Y2K problem was vague; I could only glean a nebulous mood of panic from overheard newscasts and…
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The Last Book I Loved: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

  • Elizabeth Bastos
  • April 13, 2012
Based on the true story of an English midland town in the year 1666 that quarantined itself to sweat out the bubonic plague, Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders: A Novel…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Last American Man

  • Jessica Freeman-Slade
  • April 12, 2012
It’s easy to write off one author based on a best-seller. Call it jealousy, call it high-end literary disdain, call it whatever you want, but it’s easy to give in…
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The Last Book I Loved: White Noise

  • Bruce Watson
  • March 19, 2012
In the mid-1980s, I fled Ronald Reagan’s America for the jungles of Costa Rica. Before leaving–forever, I thought–I shipped two boxes of paperbacks to the tropics. I would soon read…
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Leanna Moxley: The Last Book (of Poetry) I Loved, The Cow

  • Leanna Moxley
  • January 25, 2012
I’ve been told that it’s harder to make friends once you are an adult because in order to be close to someone you have to be vulnerable. I was told…
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Patrick Pineyro: The Last Book I Loved, Ulysses

  • Patrick Pineyro
  • January 24, 2012
The moment when a new book is begun it is a moment that vibrates, as potential energy (a writer’s wisdom distilled into a completed work, printed, bound, placed in your…
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