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 Jen Lue
“As human beings, we live in relation to each other. One person’s story never exists in isolation.” Continue reading
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.” Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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.” Continue reading
