Joel Agee, author of The Stone World, said of Joan Frank’s essay collection, “Late Work is one of the best books on writing and the writing life I have ever read….It is above all a book about art and the role, both tempering and freeing, that aging plays in an artist’s life and work.” Continue reading
“When I was a child,” Wineberg says, “I imagined life became steadier, more controllable, and smoother as people entered middle-age and beyond. But as I have grown older, experienced my life so far, looked at the world around me, and written these stories, my perspective has changed.” Continue reading
“By now Nermina understands the presence of the white UN vehicles throughout Sarajevo will do little to stave off the siege; only these men who drive the trucks—Bosnian Muslims and Croats—have a chance of delivering Nermina and the others to the relative safety of the airport tunnel.” Continue reading
“Now you’re feeding him,” Mrs. Cai said. “No wonder the newspaper said the one-child policy has produced a generation of little emperors—” Continue reading
“The Dollhouse became a lens through which I could see my birth mother and myself. I could safely question my personal history and interrogate the myths of adoption, identity, feminism, and home.” Continue reading
“You can’t go alone,” Diane says… Continue reading
“Peter never stuttered when he was on stage.” Continue reading
Bloom 