Moving the Type
In 1901, at the age of nineteen, Virginia Woolf takes her bookbinding
instructions from Miss Power and stands at her desk in the old nursery of her
father’s house, blue curtains flapping
Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of three-dozen books in multiple genres, an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, and the co-founder of Juncture Workshops. Her new book is
Top Ten New Joys in an Old Kitchen
1. Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
[https://www.saltfatacidheat.com], by Samin Nosrat
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2. About Dinner
[https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Dinner-Expert-Everyday/dp/0393246272], by
Molly Stevens
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3. Those
Stamping the Life Upon the Page
Messy, dangerous, preoccupied and preoccupying—memoir concentrates and quickens
life. It saturates. It sings. I’m just writing about me, the memoirist says, but
me is such the wily thing, and without the
Photograph of a Lost Oil Painting
If I begin with purple cabbage as the prima facie evidence I must also begin
with midnight, with me, my brother, my sister, our parents stiffened by a long
car ride. Also here
Forgive the Defacer: On Writing into Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
I was in a fugue state reading Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State. I was safely
inside the mood of the novel—inside the patterning of Kiesling’s sentences, the
swish-swish of mother-child