100 Best Last Lines from Novels
Volume 29, Number 2
January-February 2008
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Charles B. Harris’s “Introduction to the Focus: Famous Last Words”
James Phelan’s “Completion and Farewell”
Feature: The Impersonal Essay
J.D. Smith reviews Lia Purpura’s On Looking
Anis Shivani reviews Anne Fadiman’s At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Judith Kitchen reviews Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
Book Reviews
Barry Wallenstein reviews Sascha Feinstein’s Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature
Christian Moraru reviews Dumitru Tsepeneag’s (Patrick Camiller, trans.) Vain Art of the Fugue
Laird Hunt reviews Derek White’s Poste Restante
Teresa Carmody reviews Corrina Wycoff’s O Street
Greg Oaks reviews Renee Dodd’s A Cabinet of Wonders
Jessica Murray reviews Albert Goldbarth’s The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972-2007
Eric L. Ball reviews ed. Robert Root’s Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place
Selah Saterstrom reviews Danielle Dutton’s Attempts at a Life
Jim Feast reviews John Olson’s The Night I Dropped Shakespeare on the Cat
Jeff Bursey reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s Everything Passes
Sean Bernard reviews Larry Fondation’s Fish, Soap and Bonds
Danny Rivera reviews Bob Hicok’s This Clumsy Living
Scott Rettberg reviews David Markson’s The Last Novel
Louis McKee reviews David Hilton’s Living Will
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
