An Excerpt from Avner Landes’s debut novel, Meiselman: The Lean Years
Both Kirkus Reviews and blurbers have compared Avner Landes’s debut novel, Meiselman: The Lean Years, to the writing of some literary greats, like Isaac Singer and Saul Bellow.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
At Bloom, we believe it is never too late to take a risk and try something new. In that spirit, we are excited to announce that we are now accepting poetry and fiction submissions from blooming authors who first publish or publish in a new genre (for example, a novelist who publishes a poem, an academic … Continue reading
Captivated by Prague: the Writing of Jeffrey Condran
by Evelyn Somers
“We leave home and shed the identity we’re compelled to inhabit in our daily lives. At the same time, we’re not able to fully inhabit the place we’ve journeyed to. The result is an emotional and intellectual space we have unprecedented control over, but one with more room for self-invention.” Continue reading
Sonya Chung Talks to Filmmaker Dawn Porter
by Sonya Chung
Porter’s newest film—her 4th full-length project in 7 years—is JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a profile of the late Congressman and Civil Rights giant. The film could not be more timely.
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Essays / Features / Nonfiction
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Go Figure
GO FIGURE: Gods’ Eye View
By Susan Sechrist
“Each character’s struggle to find equilibrium between fate and wish makes the reader also long for a glimpse of the larger underlying structure of it all.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
Prophecy in Pieces: A Q&A with Brian Castleberry on America Past, Present, and Future
by Andy Shi
“If in these characters you recognize your own psychosis, if the plot at large seems less redolent of the Red Scare of the 1950s and resembles more today’s sociopolitical bedlam, you are not wrong.” Continue reading
An Excerpt from Patricia Lawson’s story collection, Odd Ducks
by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Oh, for the love of short stories! Today, a little late for May’s Short Story Month, I thought it would be wonderful to celebrate one more short story writer…
