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
Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges
GO FIGURE: Overthrown
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
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
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
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
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
