By Susan Sechrist
“…numbers have this interesting quality—they are abstractions, used for a fairly narrow purpose: to signify quantities. But they’re also words, patterns of sound. And words make linkages all through our brains. That capacity for making long-distance connections is at the heart of metaphor.” Continue reading
by Mollie Weisenfeld
A new crop of Bloomers for your new year reading lists… Continue reading
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
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
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.”
by Alice Stephens
“Scholarship is the ongoing work of clarifying the historical record. The fiction writer is after emotional truth. ” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“Levin guides us with a doubt-ridden but earnest narrator who posits questions about what is real and true, prodding us to analyze her narrative in the same way Gödel and Turing question the holism of mathematics, and the very nature of truth.” Continue reading
