by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
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Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
by Martha Anne Toll
“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading
Essays / Features / Nonfiction
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
Aussie Authoresses: Michelle de Kretser On Shirley Hazzard
by Martha Anne Toll
“I know almost nothing about literary scenes anywhere. The greater part of my days are spent alone in a room.” Continue reading
A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s Basic Black With Pearls
by Martha Anne Toll
Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight. Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading
Deception, Complexity & The Beautiful Possible: Q&A with Amy Gottlieb
by Martha Anne Toll
“I inhabit a liminal space between . . . overlapping worlds and find this convergent space ripe with possibility. I’m consistently energized by these intersections and frictions.” Continue reading
One Doctor to Another: Mikhail Bulgakov & Julie Lekstrom Himes
by Martha Anne Toll
“[W]hat drew me to this particular time and place in history was the intense duress under which the average person was forced to live. These were people we might know; people we might imagine to be.” Continue reading
