by Nancy Koerbel
“There are just all kinds of ways to diminish yourself, but your writing is a way to think of yourself as an expansive self. ” Continue reading
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FIVE in BLOOM: Upcoming Reads
A new crop of Bloomers for your new year reading lists… Continue reading
Literary Excavation: Jeffrey Colvin’s Story of Lost Black Communities
by Andy Shi
“I believe remembrance is a preoccupation of the living. We find comfort in good memories, wrestle with memories that bring hurt or confusion, and suppress or cast-off memories that are too painful to continue to carry.” Continue reading
Cleaning House with Jen Beagin
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.” Continue reading
BLOOMERS BLAZING: Paula Coomer: Story is Half of What Holds Our Bodies Together
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.” Continue reading
“I’m Allowing for More Contradictions”: Q&A with Daren Dean
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.”
Remembering, Revering, Revealing Pauline Kael: Q & A With Rob Garver
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.” Continue reading
