When I was setting off for book travels in October, I asked for any questions you might be bringing to events so I could think about them before we met. Emily, who was planning on coming to my event at Powell’s in Portland, responded with a question. She was a few hours away, and rain…
eyes closed, ears open
One of my favorite Thanksgiving movies is a little indie called The Myth of Fingerprints. It came out the year I was living here in my home town between various tries at college. I had a studio apartment on Main Street, and I spent every morning working at a coffee shop and every night in a Japanese restaurant. I…
jess's kale and pomegranate salad
I’ve been thinking a lot about Patience Gray lately, and her book Honey From a Weed. I talked about her with Joe Yonan a bit on this week’s episode of The Splendid Table, and every time someone asks me about who I’m reading, her name keeps coming up. I think it’s because I see her writing about…
a simple apple cake
My editor once told me that she has to bake immediately upon returning from a trip. It doesn’t matter how much laundry and unpacking I’m supposed to be doing, she told me as she fed me a buttermilk cake at one of our meetings. I need the kitchen to know that I’m back. We had quite a…
and we're off!
(photo by Christina Davis) I like this word, launch, as if one party was something of a trampoline that sent me in one big flying leap into the world that is the craziness of a new book. I’m just trying to keep my dress from flying over my head. Wheeeeeee! I wanted talk a little bit about…
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Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 