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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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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: 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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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 HIS OWN WORDS: David Wroblewski
Jill Kronstadt writes about decision-making dogs and the highly allusive novel in her feature piece about David Wroblewski‘s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Following are some of Wroblewski’s thoughts on...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Joan Chase
“I did not approach writing as a career. It came along as a way of expressing myself, the first way I’d found suggestive enough, private and leisurely enough, to be worth the effort of approaching the...
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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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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Jamil Ahmad
In her piece “The Tribal Gene: Jamil Ahmad’s Lost Words,” T.L. Khleif explores the relationship between Ahmad and his native Pakistan as well as Ahmad’s views on tribal governance. Ahmad found himself...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: W.M. Spackman
In Monday’s essay on the work of W.M. Spackman, Nicki Leone discusses an interesting quandary: How do you reconcile your feelings when you love an author’s writing, but not necessarily what he’s...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Kiran Nagarkar
In Monday’s essay, Sue Dickman talked about the wonder of discovering Kiran Nagarkar on a trip to India, and his experiences writing in both English and his native Marathi. While Nagarkar is only now...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Virginia Hamilton Adair
Monday’s profile of Virginia Hamilton Adair revealed that poetry gave Adair “a place to go when happiness, joy, or exuberance came to her”—and a way to ease life’s sadnesses, like the death of her...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Paolo Sorrentino
My original interest in Paolo Sorrentino as a featured artist at Bloom began with his film THE GREAT BEAUTY. When I learned that the film was about a 65 year-old man looking back on his stillborn...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Jo Ann Beard
In Monday’s profile, Amy Day Wilkinson looked at Jo Ann Beard’s career-making essay “The Fourth State of Matter” and the precise artistry of Beard’s essays and fiction. Today we continue the...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Sergei Dovlatov
In Monday’s profile Sonya Chung identified Sergei Dovlatov as a writer whose healthy, playful, even wicked humor didn’t at all diminish the “earnestness and regret” that often underlied his work. As...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: April Wilder
In Monday’s profile, Lisa Peet looked at April Wilder’s debut short story collection, This is Not an Accident, from a reader’s point of view—the ways in which time and experience enable a person to...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Ruth Stone
As Athena Kildegaard writes in Monday’s profile of poet Ruth Stone, there are two things at the heart of Stone’s work—“grief and wonder.” Both of those are reflected in the quotes and excerpts from her...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Hesh Kestin
In Lisa Peet’s profile of “recovering journalist” Hesh Kestin, he was generously forthcoming about growing up in Brooklyn, 20 years as a foreign correspondent, and his philosophy of writing. Below are...
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Q&A with Vaddey Ratner
by Terry Hong Almost two years after Vaddey Ratner made her New York Times bestselling debut with In the Shadow of the Banyan—her fictionalized account of her survival, as a young child, of the Khmer...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Bruno Schulz
His writing might lead you to believe otherwise, but as Nicki Leone shows us in Monday’s feature piece, Bruno Schulz “did not spring forth suddenly and fully formed” as a writer in middle age. His...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: P.D. James
Monday brought us an excellent profile of the crime writer P.D. James, and the quotes below reveal many of the characteristics that define James’s work. They show us the author’s dry wit and clear...
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