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
Publisher’s Weekly called the novel “…one to savor.” Continue reading
Bloom spoke with Arab-American author Sarah Cypher, whose debut novel The Skin and Its Girl is out today. Leah De Forest: First, congratulations! Sarah Cypher: Thank you! I’ve been working on The Skin and Its Girl in some form since the early 2000s, and parts of it have grown up with me as a writer. … Continue reading
. The themes turned up and then kept turning up, whether of longing or desire or wishing to belong . . . I think this happens to all of us as writers and artists—we create and then we see recurring themes and motifs and even obsessions. Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
“Throughout the process of reading her letters and then sculpting them into something new, I felt so much love—as if my mother was right there with me working on the book. To me, this speaks to the power of words.” Continue reading
By Lorelei Goulding I sit up in bed after a bad night’s sleep, trying to keep my sniffling quiet. My roommate sleeps across from me, in a cap and socks. She gets cold at night, even in the summer. I have noticed that she has trouble falling asleep too, and maybe that is why they … Continue 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
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