“So Much to Tell, So Much to Find”: An Interview with Tessa Hadley

When I finally began to write about what I knew (it’s obvious— but it’s not obvious until you know what it is you know!) it felt like opening a door and coming home. This wasn’t really a matter of the subjects—people, relationships, families: I’d tried all that before. It was a matter of the voice; it was that I discovered what I sounded like, what I needed to sound like, to tell my truth about what I saw. Continue reading →

“The Live Wire of the Life”: the Fiction of Tessa Hadley

by Evelyn Somers

There’s nothing monotonous about the intensity of Hadley’s perspective, even if her gaze is often turned on the details of daily life. Continue reading →

FIVE IN BLOOM: The Year That Was

by Juhi Singhal Karan

Here’s a list, there’s a list, everywhere there’s lists and more lists! In keeping with the tradition, we bring to you the best of the best, a meta-list if you will, of the best books of 2014, authored by none other than bloomers! Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “What the Greats Have in Common”

by Vicraj Gill

“There are people . . . like me . . . who seem to stay latent until a suppressed vocation gene is switched on by the attainment of some appropriate life stage. I remember registering the following thought: now that I’ve waited out the lived part of my life, my real work can finally begin.” Continue reading →