Dan Driscoll, Kathleen Volk Miller Always hungry for good stories, PBQ took a break from reading submissions and went out to listen to a few instead. After attending several of First Person Arts Story Slam’s, PBQ was smitten: we wanted to work more closely with the great people at the organization and with their performers. […]
Diana Spechler
Diana Spechler
Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for the New York Times, GQ, CNN Living, Esquire, New York, Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Southern Review, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University and the writer-in-residence […]
Diana Spechler: My Boyfriend, Jesus
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 […]