Amy Bloom, award-winning novelist and short-story writer, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA studios, on October 4, 2007 while on tour for her second novel, “Away.”
Amy Bloom, says the New Yorker, gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books. The author of five short story collections and two works of non-fiction, including a memoir, she has only written five novels since she debuted in 1997 with Love Invents Us. She would be interviewed again on Bookwaves for her third novel, Lucky Us, Her most recent novel, I’ll Be Right Here, was published in June 2025. This is the first posting of this interview, which never aired in its entirety.