Amy Bloom

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories ab ...

Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get ...

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't ...

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset ...

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native ...

It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your b ...

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, w ...

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals f ...

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to ...

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this ...

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that ...

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the ...

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, bu ...