Clare Beams
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We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams
Stephanie Reents reviews We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Belle Boggs
Belle Boggs discusses The Art of Waiting about navigating through the difficulties of conception and fertility treatment.
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The Rumpus Interview with Becky Tuch
Becky Tuch discusses founding The Review Review, motherhood, creativity, and the future of literary magazines.
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Reading on Reading on Reading
For Ploughshares, Clare Beams talks about the strange effect of reading a story in which someone reads a story: Paintings of people looking at paintings, like this one, can make me fall into a dizzy sort of hole. Gazing at…
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A List of Literary Teachers
Just in time for back-to-school season, Ploughshares has this list of some of the most memorable teachers in literature.
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Growing Up with Little Women
Four sisters, each vivid, but composed, really, of just a few brushstrokes. Here, neatly categorized for us before we’ve made it out of the first chapter, are four different ways of being a girl. There’s something tempting about this drawing…
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The Power of “We”
We amplifies. That’s part of why writers are drawn to the collective voice, I think: it’s louder. For the Ploughshares blog, Clare Beams examines the use of the collective voice in literature.