Some links for getting to know Bloom:
Amy Bloom at the Washington Post on The Writing Life (video)
More video at Bloom's Amazon.com page for Away (scroll down)
Amy Bloom's website and the page for Away
Robert Birnbaum interviews Bloom at The Morning News
Interview with Bloom at Ready When You Are

Reviews of Away by:
Janet Maslin for the New York Times
Louisa Thomas for the New York Times
Ron Charles at the Washington Post
Richard Wallace for the Seattle Times
Natasha Walter for the Guardian
Maureen Corrigan at NPR (audio)

For background on Halldór Laxness, take a look at his profile on his Nobel Laureate page. We will consider what this 20th Century writer offers to our 21st Century contemporaries. The Great Weaver is described on the Archipelago Books site, with a blurb by current Booker Prize winner Alice Munro.

_{Painting by Einar Hákonarson under license.}

Background on Louise Erdrich & her work:
About Louise Erdrich 
At HarperCollins

Reviews of The Plague of Doves:
New York Times (Kakutani)
New York Times (Barcott)
Washington Post (Charles)
Seattle Times (Wakefield)

An essay by Claire Messud on Erdrich and The Plague of Doves:
Blood Relations

Erdrich's bookshop: Birchbark Books

Wikipedia entry: Ojibwa

 Links to follow-up on our discussion of La Medusa:

More discussions with Vanessa Place:
LEMON HOUND Round One
LEMON HOUND Round Two
Les Figues Press

On the mythological figure of the Medusa:
Medusa in Myth and Literary History
(excellent overview of sources, commentary, and images)

On the literary device of ekphrasis:
Notes on Ekphrasis by Alfred Corn
"On the Medusa of Leonardo" Shelley's poem
Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

On conceptual art:
UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Conceptual art - Wikipedia