of several weeks, we conducted this interview by email, I in Evanston, Illinois, and she in New York ... so I just placed these “two poles of obsession in proximity to one another” to see what happened. But ... TQ: In the piece “In the Soft Parts of the Body,” which follows soon after “The Battle of ...
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The prisoner who volunteers for these programs or seeks out education wants to be a better person. ... Cheryl Reed Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Interview Laura Bates has taught literature and writing ... interesting and worthwhile. TQ: So how did you get into the Cook County Jail? How did that happen? LB: Yes, ...
them, that we’re just being deluded. What happens when we try to wake up to the truth. TQ: So, then, ... The Night Ocean really began from there. TQ: In so many ways, the novel is about being a fraud. We ... have value. We could see ourselves as infinitesimal beings in a universe that’s completely indifferent ...
potential problem in the traditional workshop. We’re simply pointing out areas of discussion and trying to ... this virtual classroom. Each week we do a kind of pre-workshop on ICON. Let’s say the course meets once ... a week on Tuesdays. The stories or essays that are to be critiqued during the next class session are ...
Reginald Gibbons Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Blog We spent the second week of class looking at poems ... Just to recap, so I can emphasize the ground work I want to do in this course: in that first week we ... sensuous qualities of language: the sounds of words, the rhythms of phrases and sentences and lines. We ...
barreling out at Chester like copper slugs. He continued to pump his leg. "Then ya done ... Page 213 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY Those tobacco-colored eyes sat far in Tony's skull, ... a peanut cluster across the bed, his gray hairy back hand soft, like wool fluff. "What elst ya ...
Page 157 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY asphalt parachute. Rugged, wet charcoal. The yard and the ... shades. "Fuck," he said. "Cold out here." But all he did was shrug. We ... I'd cut in the lining of my jacket. A 157 Issue 99 page ...
Page 153 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY right away. Floyd was led out last. He stood under a blue ... light to the side of the place, next to some prickly pear and other cactus, feeling the July heat work ... He wasn't able to see her as she winked back. "Looky here, Holmes, she may go to ...
individual pieces of mine—not whole books *** TQO: Now we’re on the landing. And how did you decide to put ... the way to his third-floor office, we pass bookshelves. They’re everywhere—and then we get to his ... a graphic designer, and she would say, “We don’t have any room for paintings, for artworks. These books are ...
things happen to you, naturally. TQ: What’s the way out? DB: Through our ideals. TQ: So how do we do ... those people, we’re not going to let people hear what you think happened. Because you use “motherfucker” ... said please don’t shoot.” TQ: Do you feel a responsibility to be a mouthpiece on some of these issues? ...