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Tag Archives: Middlemarch

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House
Essays / Features / Nonfiction

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Lisa Peet • 2 Comments

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 →

Comfort Reads: Charlie Mackesy and <em>The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse</em>
Features / Fiction / Interviews

Comfort Reads: Charlie Mackesy and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Lisa Peet • Leave a comment

by Lisa Peet

“I think the process of allowing your hand and heart to make marks without thinking too hard is always going to be therapeutic. Expressing yourself, talking to someone honestly.” Continue reading →

STAFF CORNER: Unread Classics
Features / Staff Corner

STAFF CORNER: Unread Classics

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Lisa Peet • 1 Comment

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 →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Spend Some Time Thinking”
Bloomers At Large / Features

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Spend Some Time Thinking”

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Juhi • 1 Comment

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 →

A Year in Reading: Bloomers Edition
Bloomers At Large / Features

A Year in Reading: Bloomers Edition

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Lisa Peet • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

Since 2005, the folks at The Millions have asked notable writers at year’s end to share their “Year in Reading” . . . A fair number of Bloomers are present in this year’s feature, as both contributors and favorites. Continue reading →

Back & Forth:  Reflections on One Year of BLOOM
Essays / Features

Back & Forth: Reflections on One Year of BLOOM

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Sonya Chung

When I pause to look back (thank goodness for anniversaries to remind us) at the authors we’ve featured at Bloom this past year, I think of the inertia they all bucked, willfully and courageously. Continue reading →

BEST OF BLOOM: George Eliot: Strong-Minded Woman and Varying Unfolding Self
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Nonfiction / Translations

BEST OF BLOOM: George Eliot: Strong-Minded Woman and Varying Unfolding Self

Posted on August 28, 2013 by BLOOM • 1 Comment

by Rob Jacklosky

But the author of Middlemarch, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss would need more reading and learning and, even more crucially, more experience—particularly in relationships with men—before she began her career as a novelist. Continue reading →

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