The top book here is Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 5th Series and I've really enjoyed discovering the motivation behind some of the writers like Joyce Carol Oats, and my favorite Joan Didion. As I try to understand what it is that makes the craft of writing so varied and personal this series dishes on the writers, their thoughts on other writers, and the relationship between writer and audience. The book on the bottom, Plenty by Ottolenghi has been in my kitchen more than once. The vegetarian recipes are focused on one or two main ingredients then embellished with seeds, nuts, spices and various types of oils like grape seed, walnut, parsley and olive.
I just finished The Burgess Boys and really enjolyed it.
ReplyDeleteI just finished it too. Hard to read at times from the sad state they were all in from childhood on and how it affected their lives and those around them.
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