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Tag Archives: William Faulkner

Terseness and Opulence: In Jo McDougall, Kansas Meets Arkansas
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Terseness and Opulence: In Jo McDougall, Kansas Meets Arkansas

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Bloom • Leave a comment

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 →

Five in Bloom: Ink & Color
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Five in Bloom: Ink & Color

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Juhi Singhal Karan

Is a graphic novel a piece of art or does it belong to the realm of literature? Or it is something else entirely? . . . This month we bring to you five bloomers who choose to tell their stories through this particular medium. Continue reading →

OTHER BLOOMERS AND SHAKERS: Snapshots from a Long Voyage—Agnès Varda, French New Wave Film Heroine
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OTHER BLOOMERS AND SHAKERS: Snapshots from a Long Voyage—Agnès Varda, French New Wave Film Heroine

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Dena Santoro

In a May 1956 interview, Varda said about the film, “I had no idea what cinema was when I wrote it.”

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Living Time, Writing Time: Narrating the Fourth Dimension in Fiction
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Living Time, Writing Time: Narrating the Fourth Dimension in Fiction

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Lisa Peet • 2 Comments

by Jessica Levine

Because I wanted to write novels and knew that writers draw on their memories, the idea of not remembering years of one’s life, the major as well as the minor events, terrified me—an enormous loss not only of experience but also of creative raw material. Continue reading →

Q&A With Thrity Umrigar
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Q&A With Thrity Umrigar

Posted on February 25, 2015 by editor • 1 Comment

I believe that intentions matter. They matter in life and they matter in writing fiction. If you sincerely want to explore the humanity of a character who happens to be of a different race, that sincerity will shine through. Readers are so awesomely smart. Continue reading →

The Not Non-Fiction of Magdalena Tulli
Author Features / Features / Fiction

The Not Non-Fiction of Magdalena Tulli

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Lisa Peet • 1 Comment

by Nicki Leone

We tend to think of creation stories as tales of beginnings, how we came to be what we are. They exist in the distant and untouchable past, a memory that has lost its distinction and details over the ages. But myths do not really operate this way. Nor, for that matter, do stories. Continue reading →

I’m Out Here by Myself: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones
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I’m Out Here by Myself: The Fiction of Edward P. Jones

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Juhi • 3 Comments

by Edward Porter

This democracy of narrative importance makes The Known World a favorite in the academy . . . [W]hat’s more, the novel’s egalitarian agenda extends to the worst of its characters as well as the best—it levels in both directions. Continue reading →

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