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Tag Archives: Martha Anne Toll

Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
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Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Martha Anne Toll

“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading →

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
Essays / Features / Nonfiction

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

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 →

Aussie Authoresses: Michelle de Kretser <em>On Shirley Hazzard</em>
Features / Fiction / Nonfiction

Aussie Authoresses: Michelle de Kretser On Shirley Hazzard

Posted on May 12, 2020 by editor • 1 Comment

by Martha Anne Toll

“I know almost nothing about literary scenes anywhere. The greater part of my days are spent alone in a room.” Continue reading →

A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s <em>Basic Black With Pearls</em>
Features / Fiction

A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s Basic Black With Pearls

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Martha Anne Toll

Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight.  Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading →

Deception, Complexity & The Beautiful Possible: Q&A with Amy Gottlieb
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Deception, Complexity & The Beautiful Possible: Q&A with Amy Gottlieb

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bloom • Leave a comment

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 →

One Doctor to Another: Mikhail Bulgakov & Julie Lekstrom Himes
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One Doctor to Another: Mikhail Bulgakov & Julie Lekstrom Himes

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Martha Anne Toll

“[W]hat drew me to this particular time and place in history was the intense duress under which the average person was forced to live.  These were people we might know; people we might imagine to be.” Continue reading →

Patience and Obsession: Q & A with Armando Lucas Correa
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Patience and Obsession: Q & A with Armando Lucas Correa

Posted on January 18, 2017 by editor • Leave a comment

by Martha Anne Toll

“I wanted to include September 11th, I wanted the Cuban parallels. I didn’t want the reader to think it was a story that happened years ago, one we were not responsible for today. Yes, we are all responsible.” Continue reading →

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