by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
by Andy Shi
“If in these characters you recognize your own psychosis, if the plot at large seems less redolent of the Red Scare of the 1950s and resembles more today’s sociopolitical bedlam, you are not wrong.” Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
“It is also a process where you learn something about yourself and make sense of the current events manifesting around you as part of a larger cycle of life. I also believe it makes a more engaging read…if there is a personal voice as well.” Continue reading
by Kaulie Lewis
Though Schles doesn’t qualify for true Bloomer status—Invisible City was first published in 1988, when he was 28—the book was something of a cult title and was out of print for over twenty years. Continue reading
by Nicki Leone
I always find myself arguing on behalf of the book in situations like these . . . The author didn’t write this book to tell you what you want to hear, I point out, he wrote it because he had something to say. So what was it? Continue reading
by Nicki Leone
I always find myself arguing on behalf of the book in situations like these . . . The author didn’t write this book to tell you what you want to hear, I point out, he wrote it because he had something to say. So what was it? Continue reading
My writing is deeply formed by my experience as an architect in two ways. Firstly, my many years as an architect taught me to sustain a long creative process. Designing a building takes many tries—it is an iterative, grueling process. Architects try different design approaches, fail, and often go “back to the drawing board.” And secondly, I gained a real understanding of structure, which is useful when plotting an intricate suspense novel. Continue reading
