There’s not an ounce of pretension or snobbery between them they express nothing but humility and respect for the difficulties of writing fiction. At the time of this conversation, they were both at the height of their powers, making their talk both intimate and profound. These two old friends are among the best fiction writers at work in this county. “The Hours,” went on to become a movie that received nine Academy Award nominations and just last year was made into an opera that was performed in Philadelphia and New York, among other cities. On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we reach back to the year 2000 to highlight one of the best conversations about writing found in our archives: A special event with Amy Bloom and Michael Cunningham.Īmy Bloom had just published a collection of stories entitled, “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You,” and Cunningham had published one his most important and bestselling novels, “The Hours” just two years earlier.
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