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
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. […]
PBQ on the Small Presses: Discussing Narrative in Collage
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 […]