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Gravy & Garlic
The Breath of a Wok Grace Young and Alan Richardson The charming turns of this dedication to three people by Alan Richardson bring a smile to our lips. In memory of my mother, who gave me a taste for good … Continue reading
Paradise of the Paratext
The long list: Contents Editor’s Acknowledgments Note to Readers Forewords Desiring Initiating Transgressing Loving Afterwords Notes on Authors Acknowledgements Index of Authors and Titles Which I condense to a burning core: Desiring Initiating Transgressing Loving from Robert Dessaix Australian Gay … Continue reading
Printing Money: Credit Where Credit is Due
This blurb is so enticing. Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care by Scott Ferguson Human being is born and remains dependent, yet everywhere she is abandoned. Today, so many yearn to be free from the governing … Continue reading
Decidedly Dedicated
for the family, related and unrelated, living and dead Joyce Nelson. Dedication to Battlefronts (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1977). And so for day 2440 18.08.2013
Mould, Canalize, Direct
Aldous Huxley Words and Their Meanings (Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940) Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto From the book flap on the dustcover: This is the first publication of a new work by … Continue reading
Onomastic Fox
“By Way of Introduction’ in which a surprising appearance puts the reader off track, given it is a cookbook that is being read: Chester County — that glorious rolling countryside in Eastern Pennsylvania whose hills and valleys, woodlands and streams … Continue reading
In Praise of Felines
Dedication to Pellegrino Artusi The Art of Eating Well Translated from the Italian by Kyle M. Phillips III. I dedicate this book to two of my best, most pure-hea[r]ted friends, Biancani and Sibillone. To you, who keep me constant company … Continue reading
Fiction Is No Firewall
If you have been reading to stay sane, think again. And so we were strengthened, because belief, for beings like us, is the colostrum of existence. After Saachi left, the Ada sank even more into her books, by instinct, separating … Continue reading
Coach and Coax
In the acknowledgements to Moosewood Restaurant New Classics one finds a remark applicable not only to the whole enterprise of writing cookbooks… Like anchors, Arnold and Elise Goodman, our agents, coach us and coax us, encourage us and challenge us, … Continue reading
Thinking Depicting
In the Washington Post of August 12, 2011, under the heading “Reich bows to protest of 9/11 CD cover art” Anne Midgette For the cover of the premiere recording of his searing piece “WTC 9/11” on the Nonesuch label, Steve … Continue reading