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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking - Anya Von Bremzen 23 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
The subtitle "A Memoir of Food and Longing" so aptly conveys the heart and soul of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking (Crown Publishing, fall 2013), cookbook author Anya Von Bremzen's captivating new...
The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner 17 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
“The motorbikes came streaming down the Corso, their light beams diffused by fog into iridescent halos, each a perfect miniature of the colored ring that appeared around the moon on rare occasions, an...
Travel Notes from Summer's End 13 Aug 2013 | 03:21 am
Call it summer's last hurrah - a final week of wandering, exploration and introspection before diving back into fall's rush of school and work. We covered a few thousand miles along the way, the scene...
Sleepy Sunday Lit Links 28 Jul 2013 | 08:06 pm
What could be better on a sleepy Sunday morning than catching up on the week's bookish news? How about being surprised with a book chosen just for you? Via Marc Schuster's wonderful Small Press Review...
Gone Camping 21 Jul 2013 | 12:33 am
Just back from a few wonderful days family camping at Cumberland Island in Georgia, a stunning national park canopied with gnarled live oaks, teeming with wildlife, bordered with sparkling beaches and...
Shine Shine Shine - Lydia Netzer 9 Jul 2013 | 01:34 am
"A week ago, a day ago, with blond waves touching her shoulders and curling around her ears, she would have stopped at the desk, bent over at the waist, arranged another appointment. She would have ac...
Penny, n. - Madeline McDonnell 2 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
Penny's Veuve-Clicquot swigging, mirror-gazing mother called Penny "pretty Penny" all her childhood, and Penny believed it. One day, not long after her mother's death, Penny looked in one of the many ...
Three Good Things: I Wish I Could Write Like _______ 23 Jun 2013 | 07:38 pm
Perhaps you've noticed I'm on a bit of a short story bender this Spring - the following collections are the latest in my binge, short stories of the very best kind - the raw, revealing and riveting ki...
[a little friday flash] 14 Jun 2013 | 11:17 pm
Things We Might Say in the Night Matt would kill her if he knew she came here, Bethann thinks, running her fingers over the dusty counters, the dry, splintered wood, the dirty glass. A year of sittin...
Summer Reading 11 Jun 2013 | 03:11 am
Ahhh.... school's out for summer. I love this time of year- the change of pace, the not-rushing, relative calm of the morning routine, the sensory extremes of unbearable heat and humidity and the deli...
