The Best of Us: REMEMBERING PATRICIA DOBLER
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.”
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Author Rocco Lo Bosco: Making Sense of Crazy
by Joan Schweighardt
“May my work be a force to restore to women a history so much suppressed by patriarchal bias.” Continue reading
Author Features / Excerpts / Features / Interviews / Poetry
Trusting the “I”: Nancy Mitchell on Adjacent Lives, Personae & Final Truths
by Annie Kim
“Every voice in The Out-of-Body Shop is I, even if the story, the body, isn’t.” Continue reading
Giving Herself Three Years: Jennifer Wisner Kelly
by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
I gave the process three years and decided that if I hadn’t found a publisher by then, I would consider that particular project done. Continue reading
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FIVE in BLOOM: Latin American Authors
by Mollie Weisenfeld
This collection of Bloomers was inspired by my reading of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I wanted to explore more in the world of Latin American writers. Continue reading
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A Room Beneath the Sky: World, Self and Travail–Q&A with Maylis De Kerangal
by Maddie King
“I wanted to focus on … the fascinating yet paradoxical idea that work is at the same time a place where one is dominated and exploited, and a way to find personal fulfillment.” Continue reading
A Girl Goes Into the Forest: An Excerpt
by Peg Alford Pursell
“I wanted to make something more out of that than what it was. You know what it was. The way you knew to let out your first cry: how you were there and not, how it’s a witness who hears and translates raw sensation voiced in the tone.” Continue reading
“Gram Julia’s Spies,” by Marin Sardy, from The Edge of Every Day
by Marin Sardy
There was also something rigid about Gram Julia…traits associated with schizophrenia… Later an uncle recoiled at the idea. The family already had a story in place to explain Gram Julia. “Selfish,” they said. “A character.” Continue reading
