Writing my first novel, I felt: the past was drawing nearer, often so close, that it hurt. Continue reading
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Category Archives: Nonfiction
Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By
By Martha Anne Toll
“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading
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FIVE in BLOOM: Latter-Year Reads
by Mollie Weisenfeld
Here are books publishing in the latter half of the year. Please set yourself up for a little gift in the mail and pre-order these fantastic Bloomers. Continue reading
The Brit and The Pole: New Vessel’s Young Bloomers
by Maddie King
Both authors simultaneously relished and abhorred putridness, designating death as a delicious way to punctuate life and the morass of complacency that accompanied it. Continue reading
Sonya Chung Talks to Filmmaker Dawn Porter
by Sonya Chung
Porter’s newest film—her 4th full-length project in 7 years—is JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, a profile of the late Congressman and Civil Rights giant. The film could not be more timely.
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Essays / Features / Nonfiction
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
On Embalming the Artist: Some Posthumous Bloomers
by Maddie King
I have a fascination with artists whose defining works were not made public within their lifetimes. More often than not, they tend to be brilliant, prolific, and somewhat just out of reach, even when they were alive.
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