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Tag Archives: Shawn Vestal

Bloomers at Large: Congratulations Are in Order
Bloomers At Large / Features / Uncategorized

Bloomers at Large: Congratulations Are in Order

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Bloom • Leave a comment

It’s been a while since we’ve posted our bloomers round-up, . . . [t]his month we want to . . . extend our heartfelt congratulations to those among our rolls here at Bloom who’ve been recognized and/or have recently bloomed in new and exciting ways. Continue reading →

Five in Bloom: Spring Blooms
Features / Five in Bloom

Five in Bloom: Spring Blooms

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Bloom • 1 Comment

by Juhi Singhal Karan

Five in Bloom is relaunching with five books that are coming out this spring! Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Sweet at Sixty”
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Sweet at Sixty”

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

Lee Monks of literary blog The Mookse and the Gripes describes Gardam as “a pretty much unanimously revered writer” that he “had yet to read a word of” before he picked up the recently released The Stories of Jane Gardam. Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Looking Forward and Living Up
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Looking Forward and Living Up

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

When self-described “46-year-old chump” Rod Dreher found himself facing a midlife crisis, he turned to the classics for succor—namely, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Story and The Telling
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EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Story and The Telling

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Shawn Vestal

The gap between the story’s events and the telling — omissions, limitations, manipulations of time, voice, the metaphorical landscape — comes to feel, at least to me, . . . like the essence of what literature is. Continue reading →

Bloomers At Large: How One Becomes a Writer
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Bloomers At Large: How One Becomes a Writer

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

If Kertész’s answer to the question of how one becomes a writer is by editing, another comes from William Giraldi’s fascinating, polarizing essay “The Writer as Reader: Melville and His Marginalia.” Continue reading →

Bloomers At Large: Tales and Transportations
Bloomers At Large / Features

Bloomers At Large: Tales and Transportations

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Wendy Siegelman • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

“It can be very circuitous to find your way to what’s plain, what’s natural to you, the best forms for your mind.” It was those very circuits that eventually led her back to her first loves, literature and writing. Continue reading →

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