Turmoil and Resilience : Q&A with Adam Schwartz

“As a schoolteacher, I’m sometimes witness to teens in turmoil and to their resilience.” Continue reading →

The Work of Love: A Conversation with Kristin Kovacic

by Nancy Koerbel

“The engine of an essay is doubt. The engine of an essay is doubt and self-reflection and humility, and once you get in that territory I think women are better at it.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Work and Waiting

by Kaulie Lewis

Cathe Shubert considered both Ozick’s and Bovy’s essays as reflections on that essential question: “Why do we write? . . . Perhaps, she seems to suggest, the answers of “young” and “old” authors are more similar than we think. Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Good News, Bad News, and Biography

by Kaulie Lewis

But a darker side of Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s series is revealed in the new version of her first work, Pioneer Girl . . . This restored autobiography includes details and stories judged too adult for the Little House books. Continue reading →

Q&A With Ronna Wineberg

We interviewed relatives…. The discussions were lively; people disagreed about what had happened in the past. My great-grandfather had been murdered in Russia. My great uncle, a man in his late 60s, described the murder to us and as he did, he cried. That moment stayed with me. Continue reading →