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.”
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.”
by Terry Hong
“The ideas of The Farm are ones that have obsessed me for decades…”
by Joe Schuster
“Maybe all stories are really about secrets and revelations” – K. L. Cook
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.
by Jen Lue
“As human beings, we live in relation to each other. One person’s story never exists in isolation.”
by Lisa Peet
“In every phase, certain lessons have presented themselves intensely in my own life, and I wanted to show them honestly before reporting other stories. I wanted the reader to understand just how I’m able to see what’s happening in these other lives in moments of silence, secrecy, or heartbreaking posturing.”
by Joan Schweighardt
“Certain horrors exceed our capacity to understand. Their concrete reality mocks theory, and language itself falters before such towering monstrosity.”
By Susan Sechrist
The perception is that the underpinnings of science, numbers and math, are rigid and dull and anything that comes from them is rigid and dull. The basic underpinning of realistic fiction is that people must behave in ways that humans behave in real life… that underpinning is rigid and dull, too, but what comes from it can be glorious and inspiring. The same is true for what comes from numbers and math…
by Alice Stephens
“My hope lies in the youth who are politically active, who are much more open-minded, who see all people as human beings.”
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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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
by Andy Shi
“It’s the story of a young woman who learns, and is excited to learn, that her heritage is more complicated than she knew. And she heavily romanticizes the whole thing. That’s me, but hopefully with a level of self-awareness that I am romanticizing. I live in fear of Orientalizing myself.” Continue reading
“I haven’t felt any pressure to produce writing achievements by a certain arbitrary age. I’ve always been confident that, if anything, aging adds perspective and nuance to my work.”
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by Nancy Koerbel
“that was Patty’s kind of thing, the ordinarily beautiful, and she cooed over all that—she had a way of expressing delight that was genuine and infectious.” Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“I also wanted to write about the women who never show up in historical writing more generally. Sometimes in our histories the women disappear altogether. This mysterious—actually ridiculous—absence of women at key historical moments became crucial to me.” Continue reading
by Annie Kim
“Every voice in The Out-of-Body Shop is I, even if the story, the body, isn’t.” Continue reading
