by Lisa Peet
Celebrating youth has been around as long as people have been counting candles, and it hasn’t fallen out of vogue yet. But I see more respect out there for older creators than I did 10 years ago. Continue reading
By Cara Dempsey
The world of children’s literature has long been occupied by many esteemed bloomers. We’d previously featured Cushman on our list of “Five Children’s Literature Authors” along with Dick King Smith, Lucy M. Boston, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sharon Creech. Continue reading
by Kaulie Lewis
These Bloomers, from Dante to Bram Stoker to Nell Zink, cover 750 years and nearly every genre, and no two of their experiences are particularly similar. Continue reading
by Vicraj Gill
Bloomers At Large is a monthly roundup of links that we think might be of interest to Bloom readers. Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
For almost a hundred years, homages to Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel have appeared with alarming regularity. These range from the ridiculous to the sublime, from the most ubiquitous of pop icons to some truly highbrow interpretations. There is something for everyone. Continue reading
by Grant Bergland
Dracula is ultimately a brilliant mess of negative space: the novel is like a series of partial drawings sketched on pieces of semi-transparent paper. Everything is not illuminated for the reader—there are still questions to be asked, mysteries unsolved. Continue reading
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