On her new EP, Bloom , Kimberly Perry offers an intimate portrait of her life through five gorgeous songs that prove she still has the capability to write a compelling country song. Introducing the project with “ If I Die Young Pt. 2 ,” Perry is honest about a lot of life she’s lived since […]
Welcome to a new century of Bloomsdays (long may they run). As James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses , turns 101, let us take a moment to honor one of the great works of literature ever produced, set on this day in Dublin, 1904. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need my particular exegesis on the […]
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Writer Rajesh Parameswaran ( I Am An Executioner: Love Stories ) and painter and multimedia artist Joeun Kim Aatchim met at Yaddo in 2023, where they struck up an interdisciplinary friendship. In this conversation, they discuss the distractions of residencies, how much viewers and readers should be asked to imagine, artistic layering, shifts in perspective, […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . The essay that shifted me from the “promising kid” to “young upstart” category, and almost deposited me prematurely in the “overrated incontinent” bin where I presently dwell, was a scholarly essay about a book collector named Mikimoto Ryuzo. I had become […]
