» The Autobiography of J.G.B. [NewYorker]
“The Autobiography of J.G.B.,” is a sly trick, since it’s not at all autobiographical as far as I can tell. It’s the story of a man who wakes up one day to find that all the other people are gone, along with the dogs and cats. And unlike the protagonists of every other “last man” stories, he actually winds up feeling pretty okay about it. Being the only surviving human (as far as he can tell) turns out to be sort of a cushy gig, except that it leaves him with mysterious work to do — which we never learn the nature of. [io9]
