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Nate East: The Last Book I Loved, On the Lower Frequencies

The last book I loved was On the Lower Frequencies by San Francisco’s Erick Lyle, editor of the underground-classic Scam zine, freelance journalist, and musician-at-large. The book reads as a…

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Jacob Paul: The Last Book I Loved, The Dream of the Poem

The last great book I read was The Dream of the Poem, translated, edited and introduced by Peter Cole. Well, that’s a lie. I should say that it’s the great…

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Jillian Lauren: The Last Book I Loved, Blonde

My framed, original Marilyn calendar has been glaring at me from my den wall ever since I finished Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde. When I look at it now, I feel as…

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NancyKay Shapiro: The Last Book I Loved, The Brontës Went to Woolworths

There is nothing else quite lik Rachel Ferguson’s The Brontës Went to Woolworths, in which a family of sisters and their widowed mother in 1920s London live a most unusual…

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The Last Book I Loved: Another Country

The beauty in Another Country is that it permits a reader to at once lament and celebrate the ways in which we use each other to further our own ideas of self.

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Kailyn McCord: The Last Book I Loved, The Ticking Is the Bomb

An old professor from college writes me and asks for my snail mail address. It isn’t such a strange request – we have developed a kind of friendship since I…

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Nicole DeWalt: The Last Book I Loved, The Voyeur

I came home from the library with The Road and climbed into bed to start reading. He joined me with a proposition: Let me read it first or I’ll never…

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The Last Book I Loved: In The Woods

I’m not a fan of murder mysteries. Truth is, I just don’t care why someone murdered someone else. Plus there’s the violence (grisly), the sex (cop-on-cop, cop-on-suspect), the conventional motives…

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The Last Book I Loved: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

The books I love are those tangled and overflowing: their magic is the product of the trust the author puts in his talent.

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Andrew Porter: The Last Book I Loved, The Dead Fish Museum

The last book I really truly loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s second short story collection, The Dead Fish Museum. I had been looking forward to the release of this book ever…

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The Last Book I Loved: Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovah’s…

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Jared Pappas-Kelley: The Last Book I Loved, Branwell

Douglas A. Martin’s Branwell is a novel that bleeds the line between novel and historical fact. It’s written in a style that traces the tragic story of Branwell Brontë—the lesser…

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