Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Min Jin Lee, Don Lee, Alicia Gifford, David Guterson, Peter Orner, Lore Segal, and others reveal a little of their works-in-progress.
The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Everything that keeps our current literary culture mired in midddlebrow mediocrity is exemplified in Amy Bloom's novel, Away, and its reception by mainstream book reviewers when it was published last fall. The novel itself is not per se a "bad"...
Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
By Amy Bloom I know that Hillary Clinton will be a good president, and if she's the candidate, I will vote for her in November. Of course I will. For the same reason that many Dems who are voting for Hillary right now because of doubts about Obama will vote for Obama rather than McCain come fall. Unless they find McCain's war and economic proposals appealing. I know that Hillary Clinton is a... [This...
~TRIFLEDREAMZ~ (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Amy Bloom) Having some welcome peace over Easter to dwell on life in general, i wiled away a moment or two in perusing some famous quotations regarding the subject of matrimony...some of which made me smile to myself and others which made me agree wholeheartedly...
Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
by Amy Bloom My sister called me from Anguilla, while she was on vacation. She scared me to death. Everyone's fine, she said, I just had a little thought. "I think you want to wear a skirt," she said. "I'm pretty sure I don't." "A skirt would be so pretty. So bridal." "I'll be wearing trousers." "You have nice legs. You can wear a skirt." "I sure can," I said. "But I won't." "Lunch is... [This is only...
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
Amy Bloom is most recently the author of Away. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Momentarily replaced by an obnoxious sportscaster filling in. Author: Amy Bloom Subjects Discussed: Opening a novel with a protagonist immersed within the Yiddish Theater, coloring a story with tragedy vs. getting to know a character, the 57 blocks of the Lower East Side, the immigrant [...]
Newton Reads (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
Lillian Leyb comes to New York alone in the 1920’s, her family wiped out in a Russian pogrom. As she builds a completely new life, word comes that her young daughter is alive and well and living in Siberia. The novel then turns from immigrant saga to road trip, as Lillian crosses America, Canada, and [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007
It was the ending that gave Amy Bloom the most trouble. To let Lillian live, or to let her die? "I could have gone...
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Coming soon, April 2008, just read the advance copy-- Lee Martin's River of Heaven whose portrait of Sam Brady, a man in fear of his life and crippled by it, lingers painfully and persuasively. -- Amy Bloom
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
Losing both Grace Paley and Tillie Olsen in one year is peculiarly tragic, writes Amy Bloom at PEN America's blog. Both revolutionized the form of the short story, turning out some of the best collections of the century. And both...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
To lose Tillie Olsen and Grace Paley in one year is a bad year, says Amy Bloom.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/04/2007
Amy Bloom's résumé is proof of an adventurous soul: award-winning short-story author, novelist and nonfiction writer. Psychotherapist who closed her practice last spring to concentrate on other ventures. Yale creative writing professor. Television series creator, producer and head writer.
Lover of Books (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Lillian Leyb lost all her family except her daughter Sophie. She thinks she is still alive but she leaves her home to go to America. She has a cousin visit her only to tell her that Sophie is alive. Now Lillian is determined to find her daughter and reclaim her. But it will be a long journey and will it end happily. Ms. Bloom is an author who does know how to tell a story. Though I found a lot of the...
Isak (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
Jane Ciabettari asks novelist Amy Bloom about the research and discovery that went into Bloom's wonderful new novel, Away.
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
NBCC fiction finalist Amy Bloom's enthralling and original first novel "Away" begins in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of New York City, where Lillian struggles to survive and to forget having witnessed the butchering of her family during the Russian progrom. Learning that her young daughter may still be alive, in Siberia, she strikes out across the continent to the West Coast, her imagined jumping...
