{"id":233,"date":"2008-01-21T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/amy-bloom-bss-170\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:28:02","slug":"amy-bloom-bss-170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/amy-bloom-bss-170\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Bloom (BSS #170)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Bloom is most recently the author of <i>Away<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bloom.jpg' alt='bloom.jpg' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3596\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-233-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=233-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo170.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 35:45 &#8212; 32.7MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Momentarily replaced by an obnoxious sportscaster filling in.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/\">Amy Bloom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> 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 experience, the famous name of Burstein, the theme of power, bringing in ethnic supportive characters, compressing many events into a small book, getting a sideways visceral glimpse, not getting to see or know everything in a book, whether some narratives are &#8220;fair,&#8221; Alaska and Bloom&#8217;s mental landscape, the quest and narrative, the follies of existential journeys, Bloom&#8217;s abandoned mystery novel in a drawer, plotting, the artistic mediums that Bloom has not tried, and abandoning the vocation of psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Would someone like Lillian have been as likely to run into people like Gumdrop and Chinky and look for someone similar to her own self if such a person actually existed?  Or because it was this removal that&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><b>Bloom:<\/b> Yes, if we had stayed in the Lower East Side, it would have been a different story.  It would have been, you know, <i>Call It Sleep<\/i>.  It would have been something else.  It would have been Herman Wouk&#8217;s <i>City Boy<\/i>, which is actually a wonderful book.  But it wouldn&#8217;t have been this book.  This book is much more, as my younger daughter said when she finished it, &#8220;Oh my!  It&#8217;s like <i>Ulysses<\/i> with women and Jews.&#8221;  And I thought, I&#8217;m all right with that.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3597\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-233-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=233-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo170.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo170.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 35:45 &#8212; 32.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Bloom is most recently the author of Away. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Momentarily replaced by an obnoxious sportscaster filling in. 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