by George Lubitz
This month we shine a light on a few Bloomers who exemplify the importance of making a difference through the written word. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Jill Kronstadt
The Fruits of Dormancy: BLOOM on Hiatus
from The Editors
There is no doubt that Bloom fills a crucial and vital gap in literary life and conversation. The community grows and grows. Continue reading
A God in Ruins: Kate Atkinson After Kate Atkinson
by Jill Kronstadt
In both Life After Life and her newest novel, A God in Ruins, the most gallingly needy of these female characters have late, lucrative careers as bestselling novelists—perhaps echoing Atkinson’s own? Continue reading
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Good News, Bad News, and Biography
by Kaulie Lewis
But a darker side of Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s series is revealed in the new version of her first work, Pioneer Girl . . . This restored autobiography includes details and stories judged too adult for the Little House books. Continue reading
IN HIS OWN WORDS: David Wroblewski
“My best description I can come up with for what it’s like to write a novel is that it is like going into your garage and trying to build a one-of-a-kind, custom musical instrument out of the spare parts you find there, while simultaneously composing the best possible music to play on that instrument. . . as you are learning what this instrument is capable of doing, you change the kind of music you envision you can play on it. There are possibilities that come up that you never imagined.” Continue reading
Very Like a Dog: David Wroblewski and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by Jill Kronstadt
Wroblewski has described The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as a romance between a boy and his dog, as much Romeo and Juliet as it is Hamlet. Continue reading
You’ve Come a Long Way, Lady James
by Jill Kronstadt
The author unveils facts as the characters experience them . . . “The detective can know nothing which the reader isn’t also told . . . It would be a very, very bad detective story at the end if the reader felt, ‘Who could possibly have guessed that?’” Continue reading
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