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Tag Archives: Flannery O’Connor

Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card
Author Features / Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Interviews

Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Mamas and Papas
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Mamas and Papas

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Bloom • Leave a comment

By Cara Dempsey

Even when they are loving and well-meaning, parents are misguided. They don’t “get it”. Continue reading →

Terseness and Opulence: In Jo McDougall, Kansas Meets Arkansas
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Terseness and Opulence: In Jo McDougall, Kansas Meets Arkansas

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Bloom • Leave a comment

By Athena Kildegaard

She’s a Southerner with a Midwestern sensibility who loves the strange: she’s part Flannery O’Connor, part Sherwood Anderson, part Charles Simic. 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 →

A Prismatic View: Talking Real Life and Fiction at the American Library in Paris
Essays / Features

A Prismatic View: Talking Real Life and Fiction at the American Library in Paris

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Juhi • 3 Comments

by Sion Dayson

[A]s writers, we must find the process that speaks to us individually. . . . Whether our stories are lifted from autobiography or invented from the deep recesses of our minds, we are attempting to understand life. Continue reading →

“A Book is a Machine to Think”: Anthony Wallace’s <i>The Old Priest</i>
Author Features / Features / Fiction

“A Book is a Machine to Think”: Anthony Wallace’s The Old Priest

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Juhi • 4 Comments

by Rob Jacklosky

“It’s funny what you remember. What gets caught there,” the grandmother says to the protagonist of “The Snow Behind the Door.” In Wallace’s stories, literal things are caught in memory, often in the form of images. Continue reading →

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