. The themes turned up and then kept turning up, whether of longing or desire or wishing to belong . . . I think this happens to all of us as writers and artists—we create and then we see recurring themes and motifs and even obsessions. Continue reading
Sometimes I become frustrated with writing, when I know a photograph would communicate in an instant what I want to express, while prose will take five thousand words, and those five thousand words won’t come close. But then words, one after another after another, can expose layers that no photograph can reveal. Continue reading
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
by Sangeeta Mehta
She started writing her novel that night. And it was at night—specifically in the middle of the night—that she would continue to write. Continue reading
Bloom 