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
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Rising Like Cream
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 Single, Carefree, Mellow
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
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
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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