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Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Interviews

Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Martha Anne Toll

“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Rising Like Cream
Bloomers At Large / Features

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Rising Like Cream

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Kaulie Lewis

The “plucky, nonconformist, self-determined and self-realized person” who embodies a particular American ideal could also be a description of Iceberg Slim, a career pimp who turned to writing during the political turmoil of the 1960s. Continue reading →

Secret Lives: Katherine Heiny’s <i>Single, Carefree, Mellow</i>
Author Features / Features

Secret Lives: Katherine Heiny’s Single, Carefree, Mellow

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Joe Schuster

The truth is, however, that . . . you did not, of course, disappear. You were just continuing to live your life and write—write a lot. It was just that most people did not notice. Continue reading →

FIVE IN BLOOM: Strong Women and Complex Heroines
Features / Five in Bloom

FIVE IN BLOOM: Strong Women and Complex Heroines

Posted on March 14, 2014 by BLOOM • 2 Comments

by Rachel Leal and Juhi Singhal Karan

“The two women were based partly on people [Charles Frazier] knew as a child, ‘very strong, independent women who had a level of self-possession and self-mastery that runs counter to that stereotype of women in that culture.’” Continue reading →

Getting Started, Keeping Going: Peter Ferry’s Tricks of the Trade
Essays / Experience Required / Features

Getting Started, Keeping Going: Peter Ferry’s Tricks of the Trade

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Peter Ferry

I write on faith. I love E.L. Doctorow’s analogy that writing is like driving a car at night: you can’t see very far ahead, but you don’t have to, because by the time you get there, you’ll be able to see farther. Continue reading →

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