by Lisa Peet
“I’m not comforted by happy endings. I’m deeply comforted by always being in the middle of a story. I tell myself, this is the middle, and I hang on to that—I don’t know the ending and I’ve got to see this through.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Jane Austen
GO FIGURE: The Hyperbola Stories – Part 2 Half Measures
By Susan Sechrist
“It only took me about 15 minutes to puzzle together the pieces and while they didn’t fit seamlessly, they made a crazy kind of sense that felt, well, mysteriously algorithmic, like we’d tapped into some secret second nature that hides inside narrative.” Continue reading
GO FIGURE: The Hyperbola Stories – Part 1
By Susan Sechrist
“What I created felt new yet related, genetically connected but differentiated. It was an intriguing and empowering experience as a reader – to actually get into the text and change its initial conditions.” Continue reading
“Gram Julia’s Spies,” by Marin Sardy, from The Edge of Every Day
by Marin Sardy
There was also something rigid about Gram Julia…traits associated with schizophrenia… Later an uncle recoiled at the idea. The family already had a story in place to explain Gram Julia. “Selfish,” they said. “A character.” Continue reading
FIVE IN BLOOM: Just Once
by Juhi Singhal Karan
Does the number of novels that one publishes have anything to do with being a writer, or the act of writing? We think not. This month we talk about five novels that were the only novels their writers published. Continue reading
Fanny Trollope: “Tested as Few Women Have Been”
by Cynthia Miller Coffel
She was always clear that she wrote for money . . . but she was a critic of society as well: many of her novels were arguments for social reform; one critic calls her a “maternal feminist.” Continue reading
BEST OF BLOOM: When Style Is Content — The Fiction of W.M. Spackman
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
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