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Encounters with authors whose first books debuted at 40 or older... who bloomed in their own good time.
New York, NY
Joined October 2012
"Books serve as a collective soul, a memory bank, for the culture." Bloom spoke with @peg_a_pursell of @WTAWPress about the impact of SPD's closure—and why she's optimistic about the future
"Titles from small presses are like beach glass—uniquely beautiful for the journey they’ve taken to await your discovery." Read more from our Director and Editor-in-Chief, @peg_a_pursell in this lovely interview with @bloom_site
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Bloom spoke with J. Vanessa Lyon about her novel LUSH LIVES, which is out from @RoxaneGayBooks today: https://t.co/U5DDocE0Fo
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Bloom spoke with J. Vanessa Lyon, whose novel Lush Lives is out from Roxane Gay Books today. Leah De Forest: First, congratulations on the publication of Lush Lives. JVL: Thank you, Leah! I’m excit…
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"Once you articulate a knot well, you can see and grow around it better." Debut novelist Mark Ernest Pothier on persistence, pressure, and finding clarity in a crisis. @UIowaPress
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Bloom spoke with Mark Ernest Pothier—whose debut novel Outer Sunset is out from Iowa University Press this spring—about persistence, dreams, and growing through art. Leah De Forest: First, con…
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"It is not early. It is not late. It is simply now." Lorelei Goulding's beautiful essay on grief, trauma, and finding your voice in midlife is up on the site today.
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By Lorelei Goulding The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference campus in Middlebury, Vermont. I sit up in bed after a bad night’s sleep, trying to keep my sniffling quiet. My roommate sleeps across from me…
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"I try not to let the perfect be the enemy of, you know, pretty darn good." Bloom spoke with author @Bigfatpress about changing your life and staying the course: https://t.co/5qrNDGLKxS
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This week's creative writing feature spotlights poetry by Jack Stewart
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We never get snow, Even when winter is fully here, Just a jacket of emptiness Buttoned by nuthatches.
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"I just think a lot of us are better when we’re older." Bloom spoke with novelist and Speedwell contemporary gallery board member Debra Spark about sustaining—and celebrating—creativity in the long run. https://t.co/6uHKGqynU1
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Debra Spark. Image credit: Nicole Wolf “There’s a moment where artists start doing what they do. A good example is Rothko: his early work doesn’t look like Rothko. But then all of a sudden ev…
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"The advantage, our ace in the hole, is experience, starting with the skills we’ve learned and exercised over time." Alice Lowe profiles Priscilla Long.
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by Alice Lowe At 79, she proudly claims and defends the word “old.” Further, there are no such things as “senior moments”; we all, at any age, forget where we left our keys or glasses now and then.…
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“I never think in terms of topics, and I never think in terms of readers. What happens is that, at the risk of sounding like Joan of Arc, I hear a voice in my head that just says the first sentence of the story.” Hilma Wolitzer on Bloom today:
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by Lisa Peet “I never think in terms of topics, and I never think in terms of readers. What happens is that, at the risk of sounding like Joan of Arc, I hear a voice in my head that just says…
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This week, Bloom features an excerpt from Joyce Becker Lee's debut short story collection, Casualties.
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“…Whether you’re a young reader searching for a way forward or an older reader reckoning with a past self who won’t leave you alone, you’re likely to find unexpected i…
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"That's what I mean by 'Story’s seen me through' ... if you can just keep turning the pages and find out what happens next, you’ll be okay." Kimberley Olson Fakih on her debut novel, Little Miseries. https://t.co/shAl02mmI8
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by Lisa Peet “I’m not comforted by happy endings. I’m deeply comforted by always being in the middle of a story. I tell myself, this is the middle, and I hang on to that—I don’t know the endi…
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Happy 10th birthday to Bloom! In internet years, that's... a long time. Thanks to all our readers over the past decade, and here's to the next 10. https://t.co/LTmqQuov1H
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What are the best book *reviews* you read this year? Doing my annual roundup for @lithub again.
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Sharing an excerpt from Donnaldson Brown's powerful debut novel BECAUSE I LOVED YOU (She Writes Press, April 2023):
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In April, Donnaldson Brown’s first novel, Because I Loved You, will be released by She Writes Press. This beautiful debut takes readers from East Texas in the Vietnam era to New York CityR…
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Congratulations to @Ronnawineberg! @SHB_books is pleased to publish her new story collection today, Artifacts and Other Stories. https://t.co/kv9p5i69cl or SHB TheUSReview #amightyblaze @amightyblaze @Relegationbooks @blreview @bloom_site @SplashMagWW @Chicago_Splash @luxlotus
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Looking forward to chatting with the amazing @marthaannetoll about her debut novel, THREE MUSES, tomorrow at @writerscenter. Come and join us as we discuss writing about ballet, social justice and novel writing, publishing later in life, and more.
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"My version of the myth includes a prophetic twist, warning where we might end up if we do not change our ways." Read @WendyBeselHahn's interview with @5estelagonzalez on her novel ARRIBADA and its Spanish language version LIMONARIA. https://t.co/D5Hx8IkEGr
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Writing “Arribada” is a way of expressing my heartbreak about beautiful places loved yet neglected by their inhabitants; and at the same time, the undying hope, optimism, and courage pe…
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"Annie Ernaux sets out her goals for the memoir as she writes it, and they become part of the book itself. The Years is not just her own story but a chronicle of her generation." Read Alice Lowe's essay on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's THE YEARS. https://t.co/xX2AP50Sp8
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By Alice Lowe I have no frame of reference for Ernaux’s memories of the restrictions and reconstruction of postwar Europe, of the domination of the Catholic Church and attending all-girl convent sc…
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"My interest in fiction has to do with the way it gets to the emotional truths of our lives by uncovering the weaknesses and problems in all of us." Thrilled to interview my friend @marthaannetoll on her lovely debut novel THREE MUSES. https://t.co/ozMjgtIPiE
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My interest in fiction has to do with the way it gets to the emotional truths of our lives by uncovering the weaknesses and problems in all of us. More and more I am interested in fiction’s explora…
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