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Jo Ann Beard: All There Is To Do Is Write
by Amy Day Wilkinson 1. In June 1996, a prose piece titled “The Fourth State of Matter” appeared in the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker, in the “Personal History” section of the magazine. This...
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Susannah B. Mintz: Men, Metaphors, and Match Dot Comedy
by Alison Gazarek 1. Everyone becomes a writer when dating online. Consider the art of creating a profile: you have just a few paragraphs to convey your perfect, most accurate, most attractive self. I...
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Q&A with Susannah B. Mintz
Bloom: Tell us a little about the process of deciding to write this memoir. How much distance did you have from these experiences when you started writing? How did the writing begin, and did the...
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Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley
Bloom: What prompted you to commission a new translation of these short works by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa? Has this been long in the works, and/or was there a particular timing that seemed...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Fanny Trollope
Cynthia Miller Coffel’s essay “Fanny Trollope: ‘Tested as Few Women Have Been’” reveals how the mother of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope took up writing in her fifties to support her children and...
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Eating Wildly for the Belly and Soul with Ava Chin
by Terry Hong These days, Ava Chin is living her happy beginnings: she’s the mother to an energetic toddler, wife to the man of her dreams, professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at her...
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Q&A with Ava Chin
by Terry Hong Thanksgiving approach-eth! Don’t you want to know what will be on the Urban Forager’s table? Read on! Ava Chin, author of recently published Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the...
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Agnes Martin’s Perfection: Now and Not Yet
by Sonya Chung 1. I come back to Agnes Martin again and again. This time, I did not anticipate how difficult—how disturbing—it would be to re-engage with her work. I thought I knew something about...
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Q&A With Mary Lance; “Reflections” by Agnes Martin
Mary Lance, director of the 2002 documentary “Agnes Martin: With Her Back to the World,” spent time with Agnes Martin over a period of four years, when Martin was in her late 80s, at her home and...
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“The Live Wire of the Life”: the Fiction of Tessa Hadley
by Evelyn Somers 1. A few paragraphs into Tessa Hadley’s story “One Saturday Morning,” which appeared in The New Yorker last August, I had a pleasant start of recognition. Carrie, the ten-year-old...
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Q&A With Linda Simon
Bloom: What first drew you to Coco Chanel as a subject for a biography? Linda Simon: I’m interested in people who lived a life very different from what was expected of them. Chanel grew up poor and was...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has been relatively reticent as a public figure since the media circus that followed her auspicious debut in 1995. Nevertheless, Jill Kronstadt, whose feature piece on Atkinson can be...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Mary Daly
A column called “In Her Own Words” has a special resonance when the subject is Mary Daly. One of the great targets of the “second wave” of the feminist movement in the ’70s and ’80s was language. On...
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Small Victories, Large Discoveries: On Fishes, Ponds, and Finding Open Spaces
by Sonya Chung 1. In his most recent book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell devotes a lengthy chapter to the proverbial fish-in-pond question: Is...
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Q&A With Dave and Reba Williams
Dave H. Williams is the author of the memoir Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled Collection of American Prints, about his experiences with his wife Reba as print...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Sybille Bedford
On Monday, Amy Weldon wrote of the way Sybille Bedford‘s worldliness—her wide range of cultural experience—broadened and deepened her writer’s voice. Hear that voice for yourself in the following...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Amy Bloom
by Evelyn Somers Amy Bloom’s credentials are as diverse as the characters that populate her novels. Educated in theater, political science and social work, she has published widely acclaimed fiction, a...
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Writing for Your Life: A Conversation Between Robin Black & Natalie Serber
Natalie Serber: I met Robin Black in grad school in 2002 and listened with eager ears each time she raised a question or offered an opinion in lectures and discussions. I would’ve been a bit...
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: We Wish You A Merry List-Mass
by George Lubitz Anybody familiar with the literary world—or who spends at least a bit of time on the internet—knows that the close of the year brings numerous compilations and wrap-up lists. “Top 10...
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Patience and Obsession: Q & A with Armando Lucas Correa
by Martha Anne Toll Armando Lucas Correa grew up in Havana, established himself in Cuba as a journalist with a focus on the arts, and emigrated to the US in the 1990s. He is now editor of People...
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