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Prose 86

Diana Spechler: My Boyfriend, Jesus

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

Today is the feast day of two Catholic saints–Saint Cletus and Saint Marcellinus–so of course I’m reminiscing about a guy I dated who thought he was Jesus. I don’t mean he thought he was Jesus in the enlightened, we-are-all-one sense, in which case he would have thought he was also Buzz Aldrin, Bill Clinton, Hillary […]

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PBQ on the Small Presses: 
Understanding the Curatorial Logic of Four Way Books, first in a series, 
Edited by Miriam R. Haier

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

PBQ “Pressay” Project Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Lorraine Doran and Miriam R. Haier met on September 9, 2012 for an essayistic conversation about the 2011 titles from Four Way Books. What can the books published by a small press in a single year tell us about editorial logic that pulls them together, and about the […]

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Chris Brennan: That’s what you get

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

That’s what you get if you win a round the Samoan said after my right cross glanced off his cheek and his response shifted my nose from the center of my face to somewhere near my right ear.   What do I get if I lose one, I asked spitting blood. I always had a big mouth. […]

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Chris Brennan: Second Grade Sin

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

It took about a week for the Polish nun who ruled supreme over my 2nd grade class to notice I had stopped praying aloud like my classmates who dutifully repeated the Our Father and Hail Mary spelled out on the chalk board.   She berated me with withering scorn as 29 other 2nd graders read […]

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