by Vicraj Gill
It’s an issue we also consider here at Bloom, though we ultimately side with Parks, who concludes that thinking about writers’ lives is an honest attempt to fill the space that inevitably exists between a book and the person who wrote it. Continue reading
In Monday’s profile Sonya Chung identified Sergei Dovlatov as a writer whose healthy, playful, even wicked humor didn’t at all diminish the “earnestness and regret” that often underlied his work. As we see from the quotes below, it put those traits and others—Dovlatov’s clear-sightedness, political awareness and clear love of literature—in an even brighter light. Continue reading
by Sonya Chung
“Anyhow, I don’t write about prison and zeks. What I wanted to write about was life and people.” Continue reading
