An interview with Gracie Bialecki ETHAN WIDLANSKY
After graduating [from Pomona], I lived in Brooklyn and worked at a fellow Pomona alum’s start-up for five years. During this time, I was also writing Purple Gold and acting as the assistant to a celebrated bookseller, Michael Seidenberg. Michael ran his bookstore, Brazenhead Books, out of his Upper East Side apartment, and it was a perfectly New York gathering place for writers, bibliophiles, and artists of all sorts. In January 2018, I quit my job and moved to Paris where I’ve lived since. It was here that I finished Purple Gold, launched my literary consulting business, and embarked on many other writing projects. The city has an incredible literary and artistic community—I truly feel supported here as a writer and am grateful for Paris’s creative spirit. 60 • fall 2020
