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
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Q & A with Julia Glass
by Evelyn Somers
What compels me is the resilience of human beings, period. As I’ve said before, all the most lasting fiction is about one thing: how we go on. Some writers tackle this in the context of war or poverty or tyranny; I tackle it through the intimate world of the family. We are all born into one, and most of us do our damnedest to form one. And, again, a certain innate voyeurism makes me want to “know everything” about the messiness of making families work—or the heartbreak and the struggle when they don’t. Continue reading
No Apparent Boundaries: Julia Glass’s Intricate Realities
by Evelyn Somers
Though she does not deliberately set out to tackle hot-button topics (homosexuality, immigration, AIDS, breast cancer and ecological activism all appear in her work), a large part of Glass’s realism comes from the intersection of her characters’ lives with the cultural and political issues that surround them. Continue reading
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