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Great Poets’ Favourite Recipes
Reblogged from The Atlantic In late April of 1973, poet and self-taught chef Victoria McCabe mailed form letter requests to 250 of the era’s leading poets, asking them to share their favourite recipes. Some 150 replied, 117 of whom made it into John Keats’s Porridge: Favorite Recipes of American Poets (public library)—a tiny yet enormously delightful little cookbook
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Literary Birthday – 18 November – Margaret Atwood
Happy Birthday, Margaret Atwood, born on 18 November 1939.
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Tree of Codes
by Jonathan Safran Foer (Visual Editions) ISBN 9780956569219  A work of art, was my first impression, when I opened the latest book by Safran Foer. Each page has pieces cut out, as if words were erased, censored. ‘A text whose erasure would be a continuation of its creation.’  After finishing this unusual novel,
Book Review – Held Up
by Christopher Radman (Headline) ISBN 978-0-7553-8920-9 The black barrel of the snub-nosed gun is right beside his head as he sits in his new white BMW. Paul can’t think… ‘Maak oop,’ open the window, the blunt command comes from outside. Paul is numb, he cannot blink. Even the window is afraid. He can’t stop staring
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Literary Birthday – 17 November – Christopher Paolini
Happy Birthday, Christopher Paolini, born 17 November 1983.
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