“I want my fiction to be entertaining. I also want it to be honest to experience, to foster what I believe in, not pander to anything base—to have an ethical and moral perspective—and to have beauty.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Author Features
Scoring a Poem: Q & A with Emily Sun
I allowed myself to write without compartmentalizing the Chinese from the English, the Cantonese from the Mandarin, and let the sounds from other places dance and mix into the poems. Continue reading
Perils and Paradoxes of Adoption: Q&A with Megan Culhane Galbraith
“Sometimes I channel my writing in the same way I channel my art. I try not to think hard about what I’m putting into the draft of an essay, but the hard work begins when I have to kill my darlings and shave the piece down to its essential parts. This is why I love to play with various forms and genres.” Continue reading
Not a Word Wasted: Q&A with Brian Phillip Whalen
I’m driven by oh-so-close failure. To get near to your goal—whatever that is—to see it up close: it can make you want it even more, can spur you to take more risks. Art needs risk. Continue reading
Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card
“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” 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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There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé
by Alice Stephens
“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading
