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Amy Bloom
My Auckland Writers Festival began with a bang: Amy Bloom. One of the things I like best about writer&#;s festivals is discovering new writers with whom I feel an immediate connection. In this case, I mean &#;new&#; as in unused to me &#; Carole Beu began the session with a stern admonishment to us all that Bloom is nowhere close famous enough in New Zealand. So this is my aim to help try and adjust that.
Bloom writes fiction and non-fiction; short stories, essays and novels, and it was good to get a taste of each of those different kinds of writing in the session. Before becoming a writer, Bloom was variously a barmaid and a psychotherapist: “they’re not so different”. She now teaches creative writing as well as writing professionally.
Bloom says the things she finds compelling are people and language, time and memory. She’s interested in “the kerb”: the gap between how people look and who they are; between what they say and how they feel. Her writing is short &#; “I want to abandon out the wheat-threshing scenes” &#; and she considers the reader to be
So many thoughts and feelings about this book. It&#;s a historical novel, the story of Eleanor Roosevelt and her lover, Lorena Hickock, affectionately referred to by her friends and closer associates as Hick. That&#;s right, the First Lady was bisexual, or possibly a lesbian. The two of them met when they were middle-aged ladies, a fact that makes my middle-aged heart go pitter-pat. And Hick lived in the Pale House for a nice chunk of the s&#;in a bedroom adjoining the First Lady&#;s.
All of that, as well as the fact that the President himself had girlfriends that his wife not only knew about but was distinctly friendly with, is historical fact. This being a novel, the author fills in where the historical record leaves off. Bloom writes of the reserved, upper-class Eleanor and hard-nosed reporter Hick as the love of each other&#;s life. Hick gave up journalism for Eleanor, when it became clear that she couldn&#;t write objectively about her or about her husband (who was one of Hick&#;s heroes as good as her rival).
Eventually Eleanor&#;s life
Amy Bloom's 'In Love' is a devastating memoir of a wife helping her husband die by suicide
It’s helpful to make a timeline of key events in Amy Bloom’s beautiful, poignant, darkly funny new memoir, “In Love: A Memoir of Cherish and Loss” (Random House, pp., ★★★★ out of four stars), about helping her beloved husband Brian end his life at age 66 after a diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s. In doing so, you realize how truly little time they had together – not even 15 years; how instantly the disease progressed; and how elongated it took, in hindsight, for them to recognize the signs.
Bloom, a psychotherapist as well as an author, brings to her heart-rending task the skills of both professions: a clinician’s intimate knowledge of diseases of the mind and a novelist’s intuitive understanding of the human heart. To that potent mix, she throws in the sarcastic zingers and comic timing of a Borscht Belt comedian.
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Bloom, Amy
PERSONAL: Born June 18, , in New York, NY; daughter of Murray (a correspondent and author) and Sydelle (a writer, teacher, and group therapist) Bloom; married Donald Moon (a professor), August 21, ; children: Alexander (stepson), Caitlin, Sarah. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., ; Smith College, M.S.W.,
ADDRESSES: Agent—Phyllis Wender, Rosenstone/Wender, 38 East 29th St., New York, NY
CAREER: In private practice of psychotherapy, Middletown, CT, —; writer.
AWARDS, HONORS: National Novel Award nomination, , for Come to Me; O. Henry Award, , for story "Semper Fidelis"; National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, , for A Blind Man Can Notice How Much I Like You.
WRITINGS:
Come to Me (short stories), HarperCollins (New York, NY),
Love Invents Us (novel), Random House (New York, NY),
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (short stories), Random Residence (New York, NY),
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude (nonfiction), Random House,
Work represented in anthologies, including Best American