By Joe Schuster
“When we are writing memoir, that is a part of the pact we have with the reader: we’re not knowingly going to make stuff up.” Continue reading
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4 Women, One Continuous Story: The Slow Bloom of Suite for Barbara Loden
by Maddie King
“Alma is Wanda is Barbara is Nathalie is… arguably, the story that ties these women together has had a slow bloom. Through mediums, languages, spaces, it has refracted.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Uncategorized
Paul Matthew Maisano’s Bindi: On Confronting Our Siblings’ Bad Choices
By Joe Schuster
“I have come to see that satire and cynicism are defenses against harder-to-cope-with emotions.” Continue reading
The Importance of Place
In Lost Without the River, Barbara tells of her life on a small farm in South Dakota as her parents struggle to recover after the concurrent years of drought and the Great Depression. Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Too Little Margin for Proof
By Susan Sechrist
…margins are a sacred, liminal space; an invitation to converse with the author, the characters, and the concept of the book. Marginalia excavates the secret passageways that exist in every text, and is not just about adding words, it’s also about adding space. Continue reading
Deception, Complexity & The Beautiful Possible: Q&A with Amy Gottlieb
by Martha Anne Toll
“I inhabit a liminal space between . . . overlapping worlds and find this convergent space ripe with possibility. I’m consistently energized by these intersections and frictions.” Continue reading
FIVE IN BLOOM: 2017 Novel Debuts
by Mollie Weisenfeld
Here are five Bloomer debut novels to track down and look out for this year. Continue reading
