by Lisa Peet
“I was somewhat well-read, well-spoken, and well-dressed. In other words, I looked like my clients, and was able to bullshit with them about the art on their walls and the books on their shelves. I wasn’t completely invisible, even when I wanted to be.”
by Joan Schweighardt
“My nursing education and career served me well, as I learned to understand humanity from the corpuscles outward. Also, writing is a physical act, and the story is an extension of the body, an actual part of the body’s ability to heal itself.”
by Evelyn Somers
“There is violence in my stories, but there is also tenderness, love. I’m interested in those things and everything in between. Often violence arises in a character who feels misunderstood. Words fail them, and they turn to what should be a very last resort.”
by Sonya Chung
“Even if you felt she was wrong about a movie, she was always enlightening—or funny, or maybe rude, or all three at once. And she believed that at his best, a critic could be an artist too.”
by Alice Stephens
“Scholarship is the ongoing work of clarifying the historical record. The fiction writer is after emotional truth. “
by Nancy Koerbel
“Quite a few friends who’d already published books told me, with a degree of sympathy, that getting a book out doesn’t really change your life . . .But they were wrong. It did change my life, by which I mean my feeling of my life.”
By Susan Sechrist
“Levin guides us with a doubt-ridden but earnest narrator who posits questions about what is real and true, prodding us to analyze her narrative in the same way Gödel and Turing question the holism of mathematics, and the very nature of truth.” Continue reading
by Andy Shi
“Hor Lee is…as un-PC as any set from Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr, but his scathing jokes assumes a supportive role behind his heartfelt efforts to remake himself and reconnect with his family.” Continue reading
by Terry Hong
“The ideas of The Farm are ones that have obsessed me for decades…” Continue reading
by Joe Schuster
“Maybe all stories are really about secrets and revelations” – K. L. Cook Continue reading
by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
“Keep your head down and get the writing done. Find a community so you can feel seen and heard while the writing takes the time it takes. And it really is never too late.”
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by Shoba Viswanathan
Who wants to live in a society where an evil like the caste system prevails? Untouchables are most directly oppressed by caste, but they are not the only ones it hurts.
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The leaves are crisping, the air is cooling, and we turn our attention from the books we carried in our beach bags and on airplanes to distant vacations, to the reads that will keep us warm in the coming months, stacked up as insulation along drafty windowsills, their colorful jackets bright against the graying sky. Here are five fall debuts from Bloomers. Continue reading
