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05Aug
Amy Bloom, Author of Come To Me
Aug 5, 2004 at 07:15AM Question:
Did you get published by major lit journals (The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, etc.) after you've created a name for yourself, or was it the other way around (i.e. your works on these journals helped push your career to where it is now)?
Answer:
My first story was published in a little journal called Room of One's Own. That got picked up for Best American Short Stories. My second story was published in STORY magazine (not a glossy but a journal with a reputation). That also got picked up, the next year, by Best American Short Stories. Then the New Yorker took a story of mine.
Did you get published by major lit journals (The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, etc.) after you've created a name for yourself, or was it the other way around (i.e. your works on these journals helped push your career to where it is now)?
Answer:
My first story was published in a little journal called Room of One's Own. That got picked up for Best American Short Stories. My second story was published in STORY magazine (not a glossy but a journal with a reputation). That also got picked up, the next year, by Best American Short Stories. Then the New Yorker took a story of mine.
Amy Bloom is the author of a novel, Love Invents Us, and two collections of stories: Come to Me, nominated for a National Book Award, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.
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