By Athena Kildegaard
She’s a Southerner with a Midwestern sensibility who loves the strange: she’s part Flannery O’Connor, part Sherwood Anderson, part Charles Simic. Continue reading
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FIVE IN BLOOM: The Word Files
by Juhi Singhal Karan
There’s something enduring about words that have been inked onto paper by someone for another. These missives have the capacity to reach across space and time . . . [H]ere we bring to you five such missives, five “letters of note” by bloomers. Continue reading
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Burst of Sicilian Sun
by Sonya Chung
Lampedusa’s eventual success at portraying a layered, multi-caste society . . . is testament to the power of literature to shape the imaginative and emotional capacity of a devoted reader, no matter how sheltered his daily life.
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Creative Paces
by Vicraj Gill
“Learn to be kind to yourself, because writing is hard and it will bash you up. Learn that . . . your only competition is time, which is the truest judge.” Continue reading
In Her Own Words: Tillie Olsen
by Vicraj Gill
“The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.” Continue reading
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