The photographer Jamie Diamond captures women mothering lifelike dolls, questioning the seemingly natural roles that women are made to play in society. See more of her photographs:
Here, on
@parisreview
are my remembrances of
#AlasdairGray
, and what his work meant to me. Please retweet in honor of the passing of an incredible writer.
Today for
@parisreview
I made Flannery O'Connor's favorite pie from the original recipe used by Sanford House in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she dined regularly with her mother.
Kafka was a food writer. I made everything but the "rice pap" dispensed by the machine from "In the Penal Colony" today on
@parisreview
. Thanks
@SophieHaigney
Short story writers.
1. Kafka
2. Flannery O’Connor
3. Chekhov
4. Colette
5. Gogol
6. Denis Johnson
7. Bruno Schulz
8. Kenji Miyazawa
9. George Saunders
10. Richard Brautigan
Today on The Paris Review I made food from the work of Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa, with the help of musician
@tetsurohoshii
. Book translated by
#johnbester
and again from
@nyrb
.
Tomorrow we post our interview with Edwin Frank, editorial director of the NYRB Classics. What is a classic? Where is the series going? What books does he love that no one buys? Find out soon!
"In watermelon sugar the deeds were done, and done again as my life is done, in watermelon sugar." Cooking with Richard Brautigan this week on
@parisreview
"We might have very different notions about the nature of the oncoming night, he said. But as darkness descends does it matter?" I discuss Cormac McCarthy on the foundational questions today for
@compactmag_
Had a raging debate with my Russian husband about the meaning of the Strugatsky novel, Roadside Picnic, which I cooked from this week along with The Dead Mountaineers Inn. Did I get it right? Soviet sci-fi fans weigh in!
A bottle of Vernaccia di San Gimignano and two of my THREE translations of the Decameron. I'm getting ready for our Live discussion and wine-tasting with
@grapesunwrapped
this Friday at 6pm on
@parisreview
's Instagram. Who is coming?
I have been writing about books for years, on a personal blog (no one cared) and for my
#eatyourwords
column, where I cook from literature, but this is my second official review, up today on
@compactmag_
I wrote about Rachel Cusk today for
@compactmag_
. Here’s another wonderful essay on her and my lifetime favorite, DH Lawrence, written by
@plfrnz
. The close textual analysis that Cusk deserves.
I am endlessly frustrated by incredibly talented writer friends who do all the work, get published, then just let their novels die, basically, due to reluctance for self-promotion. There is only one way to do it, and this is it. I wish it weren't so, but it is.
Good piece on Literary It Girls and what it takes to sell books these days. The purists may not like it, but big props to the ladies for getting out there and making the process as fun as possible. Debut novelists should take note—this is how you do it.
I wrote about how reading Sigrid Undset--and dining with her for
@parisreview
, of course--inspired my (ongoing) conversion to Catholicism, today on the blog of writer
@Koesters75
.
Friends and Twitter people! You can experience the magic of cooking from literature in person.
@grapesunwrapped
and I are holding a virtual wine tasting based on Boccaccio for
@parisreview
. No Decameron experience required. Just bring wine!
I made swans out of meringue based on the Leda-and-the-swan puppet rape scene in The Magic Toyshop, by Sadian Woman Angela Carter. Best thing I've ever done with food.
Elizabeth David's recipes are different in style from any others I've tried before. No wonder she's an
@nyrbclassics
author. Column today
@parisreview
. . Thanks
@grapesunwrapped
for the wine.
“He said that in the old days of his urban entanglements he believed there was only one way to seduce a woman, with clear and open desire.”
So true.
#dondelillo
Also, I wrote about McCarthy's last book recently for
@compactmag_
#CormacMcCarthy
a work of unparalleled brilliance. I believe the Old Master said what he had to say before the end. RIP.
Wrote a thing today for
@compactmag_
on Tolstoy's utopian gender theory and opinions on sex. Not sure the photo sells him as a sexpert tho. What about sultry young Tolstoy
@SohrabAhmari
?
Writer Leonora Carrington made food-writing a surrealist act of resistance. Her menus possessed me, and everything was delicious, too.
@parisreview
@DorothyProject
For anyone who has been enjoying the transcendent prose clippets from
#BrunoSchulz
this week on my Twitter feed... I cooked from his work today on
@parisreview
!
Due to my great love of
@nyrbclassics
I'm going to be on this podcast sometime this summer. Everyone should know about this.
@unburiedbooks
is reading its way through the entire NYRB library. Here's an episode devoted to Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad.
In our Stalingrad episode (out now), Antony Beevor explains why he objects to the term "military historian." Both his and Grossman's works depict the effects of war on all segments of society.
And here's that Langston Hughes story on
@parisreview
. I shared the recipe for my Southern great-grandmother Winnie Carey Inez Riley Reed's buttermilk biscuits.
Another bummer about this is short-term thinking by the publisher. Controversy sells Iliads. But all the well-meaning readers who try it and wander off, bored or confused….well, they might not be repeat customers. Another tragedy. Today on
@compactmag_
The Devil made me do it. Today I cooked European food from a Mexican horror story for
@parisreview
. Thanks
@grapesunwrapped
for the opposite-of-horrible wine. Thanks
@SerpensRubrum
for the recommendation.