Best of Bloom: Elise Engler on A Diary of the Plague Year
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Best of Bloom: Elise Engler on A Diary of the Plague Year

As the news rumbles about future matters electoral and the Federal Government declares the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, we revisit our conversation with Elise Engler on her book A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020. Lisa Peet spoke with Engler in December 2021. By Lisa Peet Time is always … Continue reading

An Excerpt from Joan Frank’s essay collection, Late Work: A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading
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An Excerpt from Joan Frank’s essay collection, Late Work: A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

Joel Agee, author of The Stone World, said of Joan Frank’s essay collection, “Late Work is one of the best books on writing and the writing life I have ever read….It is above all a book about art and the role, both tempering and freeing, that aging plays in an artist’s life and work.” Continue reading