Category Archives: Interviews

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Audio / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews

Secrets and Blessed Short-Sightedness: An Audio Conversation With Katherine Heiny

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Bloom Staff Writer Joe Schuster had the chance to chat with Katherine Heiny, author of the just-released story collection—25 years in the making— Single, Carefree, Mellow. Continue reading

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Q&A With Ann Pancake

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I was telling myself stories in my head before I learned how to read, so there was really no original inspiration other than boredom and instinct. Continue reading

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Q&A With Lynn Sloan

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Sometimes I become frustrated with writing, when I know a photograph would communicate in an instant what I want to express, while prose will take five thousand words, and those five thousand words won’t come close. But then words, one after another after another, can expose layers that no photograph can reveal. Continue reading

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Features / Fiction / Interviews

Q&A With Cari Luna

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“As for my research process: undiscriminating and ravenous. I read everything I could get my hands on related to squatting in general and the history of squatting on the Lower East Side in particular.” Continue reading

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Features / Interviews / Nonfiction

Q&A With Mary Lance; “Reflections” by Agnes Martin

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The thing that she said repeatedly was that people, especially artists, should spend time alone. “If you’re alone and quiet, you see the new things.” Continue reading

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Q&A With Meghan McNamara of Stillhouse Press

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“Wendi’s situation was an incredibly unique one. Some days she would feel great and we would accomplish as much as we could, and some days she would feel bad and we’d just have to make decisions without her and hope they were the right ones. When she put out the call for book blurbs, I was absolutely inundated with emails. I think that’s indicative of both her talent and the person she was, always bringing people together and inspiring them. Continue reading

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BEST OF BLOOM: Q&A with Tim Horvath

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by Lisa Peet

I do a lot of writing in sections, montage, and then feel them out for the best order. In other words, a lot of tunneling—a hole here, one there, and eventually some catacombs emerge. Continue reading