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Elizabeth Bastos: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Editor’s alert: Key plot points of this book are discussed below.Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The plot trajectory of the book: kind of expected, to tell...

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Elizabeth Bastos: The Last Book I Loved, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

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 of the Plague reminds me of the...

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The Last (Poetry) Book I Loved: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

As if Anne Carson were a geological epoch, a little ice age or a period of Cretaceous warming, I divide my life into B.A.C. (Before Anne Carson) and after A.A.C. (After Anne Carson). Few people can...

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