by Lisa Peet
“It was a tricky balance for me to go into this in a receptive spirit, and to find what might work for me in this way of looking at the relationship between the living family and the dead family.” Continue reading
Author Archives: Lisa Peet
“Diamond District” and “Sleeping” from Katharine Weber’s collection, Jane of Hearts and Other Stories
“Let the stone tell you what it wants to be and allow it to become that thing,” the old man whispered. Isabel peered through the loupe and bent over her grandfather’s work table. Continue reading
Sari Botton on Oldster, Aging, and Crooked Career Paths
by Lisa Peet
“I’m really heartened to learn that I’m not the only person who feels many different ages inside myself.” Continue reading
Elise Engler on A Diary of the Plague Year
by Lisa Peet
“The longer I did it, I couldn’t be absurd anymore, because there was too much at stake. And it also was much more interesting to draw what mattered.” Continue reading
Course Correction: Stephanie Gangi on Carry the Dog
by Lisa Peet
“I really did feel like [the title] demonstrated the core theme of the book, which is determination and resilience, and figuring out how to navigate with some awkward grace.” Continue reading
A Parent’s Love: An Excerpt from Yang Huang’s novel, My Good Son
“Now you’re feeding him,” Mrs. Cai said. “No wonder the newspaper said the one-child policy has produced a generation of little emperors—” Continue reading
BEST OF BLOOM: Walker Percy, The Original Moviegoer
by Lisa Peet
“It is not like learning a skill or a game at which, with practice, one gradually improves. One works hard all right, but what comes, comes all of a sudden and as a breakthrough. One hits on something… It is almost as if the discouragement were necessary, that one has first to encounter despair before one is entitled to hope.” Continue reading
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