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Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges

GO FIGURE: The Hyperbola Stories – Part 1
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GO FIGURE: The Hyperbola Stories – Part 1

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Bloom • Leave a comment

By Susan Sechrist

“What I created felt new yet related, genetically connected but differentiated. It was an intriguing and empowering experience as a reader – to actually get into the text and change its initial conditions.” Continue reading →

GO FIGURE: Overthrown
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GO FIGURE: Overthrown

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Bloom • 1 Comment

By Susan Sechrist

…unlike the simplest mathematical hyperbola, with its matching twin curves riven and moving toward different infinities, these stories don’t reflect across an obvious boundary condition—there is no simple, congruent image on the other side… Continue reading →

GO FIGURE: Proof of Concept
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GO FIGURE: Proof of Concept

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Bloom • 3 Comments

By Susan Sechrist

The older we get, with maturity and wisdom, the more adventurous we can become. The segregation of complex ideas into distinct categories ceases to be useful or even necessary – what we once feared or needed some semblance of control over becomes the very source of our later-in-life creativity. Continue reading →

The Not Non-Fiction of Magdalena Tulli
Author Features / Features / Fiction

The Not Non-Fiction of Magdalena Tulli

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Bloom • 1 Comment

by Nicki Leone

We tend to think of creation stories as tales of beginnings, how we came to be what we are. They exist in the distant and untouchable past, a memory that has lost its distinction and details over the ages. But myths do not really operate this way. Nor, for that matter, do stories. Continue reading →

STAFF CORNER: Unread Classics
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STAFF CORNER: Unread Classics

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Bloom • 1 Comment

This week—in the spirit of candidness, “zigzag paths,” and the ways in which “shoulds” affect our writing and reading lives (and vice versa)—members of the Bloom staff share their “Unread Classics.” Continue reading →

Bodies are Genius: The World According to Meg Pokrass
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Bodies are Genius: The World According to Meg Pokrass

Posted on June 17, 2013 by editor • 5 Comments

by Lillian Ann Slugocki

The diction is razor sharp, the approach direct, and the persona doesn’t mind offending you. She’s as transgressive as the heroine in Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” rising out of the ash, except the serious writer is on a broomstick, wearing Groucho Marx glasses. Continue reading →

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