by Lisa Peet
Celebrating youth has been around as long as people have been counting candles, and it hasn’t fallen out of vogue yet. But I see more respect out there for older creators than I did 10 years ago. Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading
“I read somewhere that most people’s favorite teacher is a high school English teacher. That doesn’t mean that English teachers are better than other teachers. It means that rather than talk about amoebas or equations, we talk about feelings – Holden Caulfield’s, Hamlet’s, Hedda Gabler’s – and teenagers are full of feelings, so we’re right up their alley. Teaching literature is like shooting fish in a barrel and damned near solipsistic; every great book is, after all, about me.” Continue reading
by Vicraj Gill
It’s an issue we also consider here at Bloom, though we ultimately side with Parks, who concludes that thinking about writers’ lives is an honest attempt to fill the space that inevitably exists between a book and the person who wrote it. Continue reading
by Vicraj Gill
When self-described “46-year-old chump” Rod Dreher found himself facing a midlife crisis, he turned to the classics for succor—namely, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Continue reading
This week—in the spirit of candidness, “zigzag paths,” and the ways in which “shoulds” affect our writing and reading lives (and vice versa)—members of the Bloom staff share their “Unread Classics.” Continue reading
by Vicraj Gill
With Roger Angell’s “Life in the Nineties,” the New Yorker brings us an excellent example of the kind of writing years of life experience can produce. Continue reading
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