Paula Bomer's Blog, page 2

An interview with Karolina Waclawiak at Emily Books.

Jesus, that was fun. I loved talking to Karolina. Thanks Emily Books!

Podcast from People Holding

Click here to listen to me read a very short story I wrote at the always entertaining People Holding. Thanks, Morgan Beatty.

Christina's Stead's The Man Who Loved Children

My book for Ig Publishing's new series, Bookmarked, is available for pre-order. I wrote about the amazing. horrifying novel, The Man Who Loved Children, and my somewhat imaginary relationship to Jonathan Franzen, Stead's relationship to her father and husband, the movie The Blob, fish, vaginas, families, private languages, humor, death, love. a lot about love. I can't wait for this book to come out. In some ways, I feel I want this book in the world more than any of my other books but it's possible I just don't remember how I felt about the other books or have erased those feelings for now, because I'm so consumed about my new books (the other to be announced in March). Anyway, pre-order people! If you want to read a really strange, personal book about a book. 

My Father's Suicide and "The Days of Abandonment"

Thank you Volume 1 Brooklyn for publishing my essay, "My Father's Suicide and 'The Days of Abandonment'". And thank you, Elena Ferrante, for writing this incredible novel. It helped me.

"The Most Cake" A flash piece at People Holding

Thank you, Morgan, for asking me to contribute to People Holding. 

"Cleveland Circle House" online at Frigg Magazine

Thank you Ellen Parker and everyone else at Frigg for publishing "Cleveland Circle House" at Frigg Magazine. And, of course, thanks to Mark Mirsky for originally publishing it in Fiction Magazine and Mark Doten for publishing it in my book, Inside Madeleine.

The personal essay, "Interstitial Cystitis" live at Revolution John

Thanks Sheldon Lee Compton for publishing the essay that means so much to me. I don't write a lot of personal essays. 

Time Out New York names Inside Madeleine as one of "Ten Books Hotter and Better than Fifty Shades of Grey"

What I like about this list is the mixture of old classics, poetry and contemporary fiction. Nice!

An Interview with Elisa Albert

Full Stop let me ask Elisa Albert some questions about After Birth, one of the best reads I've had in ages. Huge congratulations to Elisa.

An Essay on Watching PJ Harvey Record Her 9th Album

Thanks to Sarah Rose Etter at the Fanzine for asking me to write about seeing PJ Harvey record at Somerset House. And special thanks to Susan Supercharged for getting me the ticket and inviting me to London. A truly special event.