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
Author Archives: Lisa Peet
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
Essays / Features / Nonfiction
Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House
by Lisa Peet
I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading
Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention
by Lisa Peet
“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading
Pandemic Life by the Numbers: The Golden Five
by Sonya Chung
I’ve found myself opting for “five more minutes.” Slow it down, take your time. Not by much, but you begin to see—the meaningfulness of small increments. Continue reading
Riva Lehrer on Disability, Making Art, and Getting Rid of the Explainy Voice
by Lisa Peet
“It was such a transformative thing for me, making the point that you get a different set of words and holy shit, your perceptions just turn inside out.” Continue reading
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