Our roundtable comes well after 9-11, and rightly so. All of us at PBQ took note of the immediate effects of fall, 2001 on our work as teachers, writers and editors. The mainstream press kept describing the terrorism as inaugurating a “new world.” For our part, we knew that writing felt different in such a […]
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Adam McKeown: Words Like Steel
There is a star painted gold and black on the highest circle of bleachers at Veterans’ Stadium marking the spot where Willie Stargell sent the longest home run ever hit in the city of Philadelphia. As a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, I knew I walked among the lowest of the dead in that ancient city, and […]