by Vicraj Gill
Lee Monks of literary blog The Mookse and the Gripes describes Gardam as “a pretty much unanimously revered writer” that he “had yet to read a word of” before he picked up the recently released The Stories of Jane Gardam. Continue reading
by Vicraj Gill
With Roger Angell’s “Life in the Nineties,” the New Yorker brings us an excellent example of the kind of writing years of life experience can produce. Continue reading
by Sonya Chung
When I pause to look back (thank goodness for anniversaries to remind us) at the authors we’ve featured at Bloom this past year, I think of the inertia they all bucked, willfully and courageously. Continue reading
“Fiction should have a ghostlike presence in it somewhere, something omniscient. It makes it a different reality.” Continue reading
by Robert Goree
With words and a few grainy photographs, he presents us with his memory at its most graceful and candid—all the while teasing our expectations for what makes literature literature. Continue reading
by Bloom
Here’s a quickie sneak-preview of what’s on deck for the coming weeks and months. Continue reading
I think I share John Ruskin’s view that great art is fundamentally moral, in that the deep experience of it makes you a better person, although my definition of “better person” is not one that Ruskin would recognize. Continue reading
