4/23/25

The Last Paragraph of Charles Wright's The Messenger

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The Last Paragraph of Charles Wright's The Messenger   I didn't say anything. Suddenly I didn't care. All I wanted to do was s...
1/15/24

The Last Paragraph of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rainbow”

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The Last Paragraph of D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow And the rainbow stood on earth. She knew that the sordid people who crept hard-scaled and...
2/14/23

The Last Paragraph of Testo Junkie by Paul Preciado

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The Last Paragraph of Testo Junkie by Paul Preciado As we walk away from your body, which has already begun to ferment among the flowers of...
11/29/22

The last page of Triste Tropiques by Claude Lévi Strauss

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The last page of Triste Tropiques by Claude Lévi Strauss   Man is not alone in the universe, any more than the indiv...
11/8/15

The Last Paragraph of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

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The Last Paragraph of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling She would hang a sign in the restaurant window---Owt to luntsch...

The Last Line of Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam

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The Last Line of Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam Boy was I in for a big surprise....

The Last Lines of Janet Flanner's The Cubical City

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The Last Lines of Janet Flanner's The Cubical City Slowly Delia closed her eyes, her head sightless, erect, and yellow, holding its...

The Last Paragraph of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head

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The Last Paragraph of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head I gave her back the bright light of the smile, now softening at last out of iro...

The Last Paragraph of David Shield's How Literature Saved My Life

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The Last Paragraph of David Shield's How Literature Saved My Life I wanted Literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can a...
9/13/15

The Last Lines of Romeo and Juliet

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The Last Lines of Romeo and Juliet For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

The Last Paragraph of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych

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The Last Paragraph of Leo Tolstoy's  The Death of Ivan Ilych He drew in a breath, stopped in the midst of a sigh, stretched out, an...

The Last Paragraph of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

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The Last Paragraph of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina I’ll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, spea...
7/16/15

The Last Paragraph of Philip Larkin's A Girl in Winter

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The Last Paragraph of Philip Larkin's A Girl in Winter Yet their passage was not saddening. Unsatisfied dreams rose and fell about...

The Last Paragraph of Go Ask Alice

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The Last Paragraph of Go Ask Alice See ya.
2/21/14

The Last Paragraph of Pansy Sonata by Kenneth Weyerhaeuser

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The Last Paragraph of Kenneth Weyerhaeuser's Pansy Sonata "It's a surge---a surge of feelings." "Surge all y...

The Last Paragraph of Shelia Heti's How Should A Person Be?

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The Last Paragraph of Shelia Heti's How Should A Person Be?      And so they were.
2/16/14

The Last Stanza of the First Canto of Lord Bryon's Don Juan

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The Last Stanza of the First Canto of Lord Bryon's Don Juan                                                                   ...
1/30/14

The Last Paragraph Of The First Part of Don Quixote

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The Last Paragraph Of The First Part of Don Quixote "That may well be," responded the canon, "but by the orders I receive...

The Last Paragraph of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

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The Last Paragraph of Jack Kerouac's On the Road So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier wa...
1/26/14

The Last Paragraph of Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers

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The Last Paragraph of Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
1/23/14

The Last Paragraph of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

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The Last Paragraph of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is The living entity in his original position is pure spirit. He is just like an atomic parti...
1/17/14

The last paragraphs of Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama

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The Last Paragraphs of Brett Easton Ellis' Glamorama I'm drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di S...
1/16/14

The Last Paragraph of John Gardner's Grendel

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The Last Paragraph of John Gardner's Grendel Again sight clears. I am slick with blood. I discover I no longer feel pain. Animals ga...

The Last Paragraph of William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury

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The Last Paragraph of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Ben's voice roared and roared. Queenie moved again, her feet bega...
7/9/08

The Last Paragraph of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species

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The Last Paragraph of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most ...
2/12/08

The Last Paragraph of Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mix Tape

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The Last Paragraph of Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mix Tape What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ag...

The Last Paragraph of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Last Paragraph of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking I think about swimming with him into the cave at Portuguese Bend, about...

The Last Paragraph of Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road

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The Last Paragraph of Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road "It's just that they were a rather strange couple. Irresponsible. The g...

The Last Paragraph of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son

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The Last Paragraph of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of t...

The Last Paragraph of Denis Johnson's Angels

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The Last Paragraph of Denis Johnson's Angels It was Frederick's understanding that that prisoners had a story: that each night for m...

The Last Paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

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The Last Paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddle...

The Last Paragraph of Philip Roth Sabbath's Theatre

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The Last Paragraph of Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How c...
2/9/08

The Last Paragraph of Don DeLillo's Underworld

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The Last Paragraph of Don DeLillo's Underworld And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids pla...
2/8/08

The Last Paragraph of James Joyce's The Dead

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The last paragraph of James Joyce's "The Dead" A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to sno...