by Maddie King
There’s something exciting and liberating about the middle-aged debut. It’s a bit monstrous, actually . . . a Bloom writer, as a person who’s both “new” and “late,” is a bit grotesque. But that’s exactly where ideas spring free. Continue reading
by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Even Proust didn’t sequester himself in his cork-lined room to write until he had, well, lost time to the parties and travels he turned into fiction. Continue reading
by Cynthia Miller Coffel
The more frequently-told story suggests that either Taylor or her publishers, in that decade of conformity after the Second World War and before the feminism of the 1960s, did not want to represent the author as a person with literary ambitions. Continue reading
by Maddie King
“Everything I write is colored by the desire to see beyond appearances, by my awareness of multiple viewpoints, multiple margins and centers operating at once.” Continue reading
by Ariadne Apostolou
“I am a writer who gets really passionate about certain subject matter, and then dives in and learns everything she can.” Continue reading
by Caroline Bock
Some days, [it] burns into a complete story, and my writing goal is achieved. Some days, the story stretches into much longer pieces. Word count becomes irrelevant. I am unbound by time, hungry and not realizing why. Continue reading
by Terry Hong
“I was concerned the hegemony of American influence was changing the way the world thought, looked, and shopped.” Continue reading
