Just noticed that Post Road has posted my recommendation of "First Love" by Samuel Beckett, which appeared in issue 21(Fall/Winter 2010).

Post Road 21 is a great issue, with work from Michael Martone, Michael Kimball, Meredith Steinbach, and many others. Recommendations is a running feature in Post Road. Authors share brief appreciations of their favorite (and often overlooked) books.

Here's a clip from my recommendation of "First Love":

"The unnamed narrator of "First Love" will be familiar to you. You've met him before. He is much like Molloy and Malone and the unnamed narrator in The Unnameable. He is not unlike Belacqua from Beckett's short story "Dante and the Lobster"—he even uses the term "lepping." And like Krapp, he has a taste for bananas. But while Belacqua's first love is blissful Beatrice, from Dante's Inferno, and Krapp spools and re-spools his recorded memory of lovingly reading a "page a day, with tears" of Fontane's Effi Briest, the narrator of "First Love" is less literary and more corporeal: he marries a prostitute named Lulu."

Read it all...at Post Road.