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

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

BEST OF BLOOM: Sari Botton on Oldster, Aging, and Crooked Career Paths
Features / Interviews / memoir

BEST OF BLOOM: Sari Botton on Oldster, Aging, and Crooked Career Paths

Periodically, we revisit some of the “best of” Bloom from previous years. Bloom published this Q&A with Sari Botton on February 15, 2022, four months before we featured an excerpt of Botton’s memoir And You May Find Yourself … Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo.  Lisa Peet caught up with Botton to talk about—as Botton describes … Continue reading