by Vicraj Gill
Maybe literary success is less about winning than about waiting—about observing and understanding the world rather than asserting yourself in it as quickly and dramatically as possible. Continue reading
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Back & Forth: Reflections on One Year of BLOOM
by Sonya Chung
When I pause to look back (thank goodness for anniversaries to remind us) at the authors we’ve featured at Bloom this past year, I think of the inertia they all bucked, willfully and courageously. Continue reading
Bloomers At Large: How One Becomes a Writer
by Vicraj Gill
If Kertész’s answer to the question of how one becomes a writer is by editing, another comes from William Giraldi’s fascinating, polarizing essay “The Writer as Reader: Melville and His Marginalia.” Continue reading
BEST OF BLOOM: André Aciman’s Search for Lost Dream Time
by Jennifer Acker
He has been hailed as a writer who excels in the investigation of memory, but it’s not a fixed past that offers the siren’s call; it is a past that dreams of and anticipates a future full of longing for itself. Continue reading
Q&A with André Aciman
by Jennifer Acker
The “furniture” in my life remains the same; but as a writer, I’ve just moved it around. Since I always write in the first person, readers have a tendency to believe (or to suspect) that I am writing autobiographically. They may or may not be wrong. Continue reading
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In Search of Lost Dream Time: Two New Books by André Aciman
by Jennifer Acker
He has been hailed as a writer who excels in the investigation of memory, but it’s not a fixed past that offers the siren’s call; it is a past that dreams of and anticipates a future full of longing for itself. Continue reading
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