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Paperbacks: Away, by Amy Bloom (The Independent)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Short-story writer Amy Bloom comes into her own with a highly entertaining, and snappily told, saga of Jewish immigration. At 22, Lillian Leyb's family is butchered in a Russian pogrom.

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Unfinished work, excerpted in Narrative (Maud Newton)

Sun, 18 May 2008 16:23:39 GMT

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.

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Middlebrow Mediocrity (The Reading Experience)

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

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"...

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I Want to Support Hillary - But She Won't Let Me (Women's Voices for Change)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:22:26 GMT

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...

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Marital Bliss. (~TRIFLEDREAMZ~)

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:49:57 GMT

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...

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Climbing the Matterhorn in High Heels, Marrying at 50 - Which Makes More Sense? (Women's Voices for Change)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...

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Amy Bloom (BSS #170) (The Bat Segundo Show)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:45:38 GMT

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 [...]

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Away, by Amy Bloom (Newton Reads)

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:44:34 GMT

... is filled with a cast of vividly-drawn characters, and as Lillian moves on and leaves them behind, Bloom ties up their stories for us. A beautiful and heartbreaking novel of transformation and reinvention in early 20th century America. Rating: ***** One of the best books I’ve read Reviewd by: stc Check our catalog

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Bloom started as a good listener (JSOnline)

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:09:38 GMT

It was the ending that gave Amy Bloom the most trouble. To let Lillian live, or to let her die? "I could have gone...

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What Did You Vote for Amy Bloom? (CRITICAL MASS)

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:58:03 GMT

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

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A Song of Praise fo Grace Paley and Tillie Olsen (Isak)

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:32:49 GMT

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...

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Two writer-revolutionaries who epitomized PEN's goals (Maud Newton)

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:53:23 GMT

To lose Tillie Olsen and Grace Paley in one year is a bad year, says Amy Bloom.

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Her departures always return to writing (Miami Herald)

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:13:00 GMT

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.

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Away by Amy Bloom (Lover of Books)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:09:00 GMT

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...

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Questions for Amy Bloom (Isak)

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:53:26 GMT

Jane Ciabettari asks novelist Amy Bloom about the research and discovery that went into Bloom's wonderful new novel, Away.

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Two Questions for Amy Bloom (CRITICAL MASS)

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:46:00 GMT

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...

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Her career is in full Bloom (atHome Top Story)

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:30:00 GMT

Amy Bloom pauses to consider how this past summer's experience of working as a writer and executive producer on a cable TV series in Los Angeles differed from her regular routine of composing fiction in small-town Connecticut and teaching creative writing at nearby Yale University.

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Swept Away on a cross-country quest (kansascity.com)

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:56:00 GMT

For more than a decade, Amy Bloom has been a well-regarded literary writer best known for an understated, emotionally wise debut, 1993’s National Book Award-nominated story collection Come to Me.

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CAAF: Weekly reader (About Last Night)

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:20:51 GMT

• I spent last Saturday on the couch reading and bawling over Amy Bloom's Away. It's a marvelous novel, as...

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Amy Bloom on Writing, Byline Gaps, and 'Away' (Isak)

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:49:29 GMT

As if you could get enough of Amy Bloom. My interview with Bloom is up over at the Center for New Words blog. In contrast to my interview with Bloom last week at The Elegant Variation, which was a craft-based...

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