by Vicraj Gill
Zamorano’s essay is candid about many things . . . the way self-help books helped her along her literary path; and the way she even “pray[ed] for God to excise this writing aspiration from [her] heart.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Sergei Dovlatov
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Other Identities
by Vicraj Gill
Both “writing and mothering” and the question of privilege come up in a great conversation between Lauren Francis-Sharma . . . and Bernice McFadden about their lives as published writers of color. Continue reading
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Asking Smart Questions
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 HIS OWN WORDS: Sergei Dovlatov
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
Authors / Features / Fiction / Translations
Sergei Dovlatov: Gravity, Levity, and Love
by Sonya Chung
“Anyhow, I don’t write about prison and zeks. What I wanted to write about was life and people.” Continue reading
