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You Will Find Me Upriver: Dissent and Translation–Q&A w/ Cristina Rivera Garza
by Maddie King“He chose to use the language that we would speak during our journey through the boreal forest: a language that was not strictly his nor mine, a third space, a second tongue in common.”...
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Cracking Open the Self: an Interview with Lisa Knopp
by Evelyn Somers Lisa Knopp has been practicing and studying the craft of nonfiction writing since before she knew what an essay was. From her years teaching public high school and writing “short...
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4 Women, One Continuous Story: The Slow Bloom of Suite for Barbara Loden
by Maddie KingWhen the post-woman delivered Suite for Barbara Loden to my mailbox, I was not at home. I wasn’t even in the country. The book boarded a flight to Paris, then traveled the...
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“Closest to Raw Reality”: Gary Pedler on Memoir, Novel Writing, and a...
Reading Gary Pedler’s debut book, Couchsurfing: the Musical, (Adelaide Books, 2019), we’re reminded that the most enjoyable travel writing is not just about an alluring place. It’s about what it’s...
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Real Talk: An Audio Convo with Sonya Chung & Jennifer N. Baker
by Editor Our founding editor Sonya Chung had the privilege of being interviewed by Jennifer N. Baker—writer, editor, advocate, and podcaster. Her Minorities in Publishing podcast, now in its 5th...
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“Gram Julia’s Spies,” by Marin Sardy, from The Edge of Every Day
by Marin Sardy Marin Sardy’s memoir The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, out from Pantheon on May 21 (what would have been her grandmother Barbara’s 100th birthday), traces the path of...
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A Room Beneath the Sky: World, Self and Travail–Q&A with Maylis De Kerangal
by Maddie King“Little by little, his sensations become more precise; at each stage of the preparation they are mobilized as one, coalesced into a single movement, as if the boy himself were being...
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FIVE in BLOOM: Latin American Authors
by Mollie Weisenfeld This collection of Bloomers was inspired by my reading of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I wanted to explore more in the world of Latin American writers....
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People the Size of Mountains: Q&A with Olga Zilberbourg
by Maddie KingOlga Zilberbourg is a Russian-American writer who lives in San Francisco and was born during the Cold War. She has three published collections in Russia: The Clapping Land, published by...
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FIVE in BLOOM: Fall Debuts
by Mollie Weisenfeld The leaves are crisping, the air is cooling, and we turn our attention from the books we carried in our beach bags and on airplanes to distant vacations, to the reads that will...
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The Vulnerability of Human Dignity: Q&A with Sujatha Gidla
by Shoba Viswanathan The power of finding representation in the written word is critical for both writer and reader, but is still not always accessible. While there is growing talk of #diversevoices,...
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Remembering, Revering, Revealing Pauline Kael: Q & A With Rob Garver
by Sonya Chung Pauline Kael (b. 1919, d. 2001) was the most renowned film critic of the 20th century. It’s a strong statement, but inarguable: you may not have loved or agreed with or even respected...
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FIVE in BLOOM: Upcoming Reads
by Mollie Weisenfeld A new crop of Bloomers for your new year reading lists… ***Minna Salami was born in Finland in 1978 to a Nigerian father and Finnish mother. She spent her childhood in Nigeria...
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“We have to learn from history and stop repeating its mistakes”: Q&A with...
by Terry Hong As the child of two Chinese refugees, Helen Zia can personally speak to the effects of displacement, separation, adaptation, and reinvention. In her memorable career as...
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GO FIGURE: Intersections with Poet Alice Major
by Susan Sechrist “Go Figure” is a regular feature at Bloom that highlights and celebrates the interdependence and integration of math and literature, and that will “chip away at the cult of youth that...
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Cut the Crap: One Punk’s Reflections on Literature, Race, & The Authentic Life
by Andy Shi Some choose the punk life, and for a few the punk life chooses them. Perhaps punk’s iconoclastic individualism was all that was left for Phuc Tran after an early childhood of trying to fit...
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The Work of Love: A Conversation with Kristin Kovacic
by Nancy Koerbel Kristin Kovacic has published widely and well, if quietly, over many years. Her clear and elegantly crafted work has garnered a Pushcart (for her essay “A Short History of My Breath,”...
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Aussie Authoresses: Michelle de Kretser On Shirley Hazzard
by Martha Anne Toll Michelle de Kretser is the author of five novels, including the Miles Franklin Award winners Questions of Travel and The Life to Come—the latter also won the Christina Stead fiction...
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On Embalming the Artist: Some Posthumous Bloomers
by Maddie King In early April, I came downstairs to find water seeping beneath the door to the basement. It had been raining pretty steadily for a few days and what with the New York stay-at-home order...
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On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
By Martha Anne Toll In an era when we could still travel, I attended a writing residency in the picture-perfect town of Auvillar, France. I brought with me a postcard of The Daughters of Edward Darley...
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