by Lisa Peet
Celebrating youth has been around as long as people have been counting candles, and it hasn’t fallen out of vogue yet. But I see more respect out there for older creators than I did 10 years ago. Continue reading
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
by Sonya Chung
Richardson claimed that he did not fully understand the female until writing Clarissa. Maybe he did, in fact, get better at depicting a woman’s heart and mind, in a timeless way, with practice and effort. Continue reading
by Nicki Leone
It wasn’t entirely unusual for a couple of booksellers to suggest to Richardson that he pen a book on the art of letter-writing. What was unusual was the result of the endeavor, a wholly new kind of novel: Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded. Continue reading
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