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Prose 89

Sarah Freligh: A Review of Teresa Leo’s Bloom in Reverse

August 5, 2014 by PBQ

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus suggests that the “only really serious philosophical question . . . is suicide.” Sisyphus is condemned to push a boulder uphill only to see it roll back. In the wake of a loved one’s suicide, the living are left to puzzle over unfathomable loss, the metaphorical rock that […]

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Ellen Geist: Poor Us

June 11, 2014 by PBQ

We were very poor. By choice, you might say. Some of us were from Scarsdale, Shaker Heights, and Georgetown, but we never talked about that. I wasn’t from any of those places. My father always said we were “lower middle class,” growing up, but we were more in the middle than he cared to admit. […]

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PBQ on the Small Presses:  Discussing Narrative in Collage

June 11, 2014 by PBQ

Second in a Series Edited by Miriam R. Haier   Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman and Miriam R. Haier met on July 19, 2013 to discuss recent titles from Alice James Books. MW: I wanted to talk about the way that a collage-based work still does a kind of world-making. In a narrative collection, the world […]

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