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Kristin Dombek: Monkeys Might Fly

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

(An Adynaton) My husband and I have made a quiet and comfortable life together in Brooklyn.  I teach at a university and he has his own business down the street from our apartment building.  Most evenings, we arrive home from work around 8:00 or so, and order Mexican food, sushi, pizza, or deli sandwiches.  If […]

Filed Under: Contributors 82, Issue 82, Prose, Prose 82 Tagged With: Contributors 82, Kristin Dombek, Prose, Prose 82

Molly Schultz: Cooking the National Dish of Uzbekistan

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

Here’s a recipe that may seem novel, perhaps even formidable. But the pursuit, if you set yourself to the task, will not disappoint. Osh-palov (also plov or simply osh) is the national dish of Uzbekistan, a land-locked country in Central Asia not unlike Italy in shape, a right boot to match the left, with courtyards […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Prose, Prose 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, Molly Schultz, Prose, Prose 83

Jonah Lehrer: Food Memory

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

A few dozen pages into Swann’s Way, after Proust has finished documenting his insomnia in clinical detail, the narrator dips a little cookie into a cup of lime-flower tea. Everybody knows what happens next: it’s one of the most famous literary scenes of all time, in which Marcel recovers his lost memories of childhood in […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Prose, Prose 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, Jonah Lehrer, Prose, Prose 83

Nina Mukerjee Furstenau: Biting Through the Skin

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

My first memories of trips to India while growing up are of my grandparents, a neighbor girl named Sweeti, and craggy faces of rickshaw drivers.  Under these vivid mind pictures, though, is a feeling that loosens something under my sternum.  It stems from the awe of seeing my father look taller, more vitally part of […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Prose, Prose 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, Prose, Prose 83

Ann Lightcap Bruno: Notes on Hunger

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

1. The parent of all industries is Hunger. – Henry Drummond, The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, 1894 Herr Doktor told me to arrive at nine, Sunday morning.  Eat only lightly in the evening. Nothing after.  That night Paul and I ate bowls of bean soup at the Formica table in our two-room […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Prose, Prose 83 Tagged With: Ann Lightcap Bruno, Contributors 83, Prose, Prose 83

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