by Peter Krass
One of my writing students, well into her 80s, was surprised that her stories, set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1950s, held our workshop fascinated. “You’d really want to read more of this?” she asked skeptically. We did. Continue reading
by Joan Schweighardt
“There is always hope. As long as we are breathing, we have hope.” Continue reading
by Mollie Weisenfeld
In this edition of FIVE IN BLOOM, we reintroduce you to some of our earliest spotlighted authors, whose works continue to inspire. Continue reading
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
