by Lisa Peet
“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading
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FIVE IN BLOOM: Writers’ Advisory
by Juhi Singhal Karan
We asked five bloomers for the best, the most helpful piece of writing advice that they’d received. Here in their own words is the bit of writing wisdom that has stayed with them over the years. Continue reading
Audio / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
“The River Out of Which the Water is Dipped”: A Conversation With Robert Gipe
by Julia Mahony
“Just come visit, and I’ll introduce you to her all day long” — Rob Gipe on the origins of Dawn, the young protagonist of Trampoline. Continue reading
An Excerpt from Robert Gipe’s Trampoline
by Robert Gipe
There was a spot of color on my mother’s cheek…seeping through like blood seeping through a rag. I wanted to wring my real mother out from the rag her body had become. I wanted to wring that rag out over a bucket, pour what I wrung out into some kind of mold, like a jello mold of my old momma, my good momma, and make her back into what she was. Continue reading
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