Sometimes I make grand statements about myself that sound like facts but really aren’t true at all. The one running through my head right now is along the lines of how I hate quirky-for-quirkies-sake, but…
Posts tagged Aimee Bender
The particular heartiness of Lemon Cake
Writer Aimee Bender will see your foodie and raise you one Super Foodie. For every perfect palate that has ever detected a hint of this and a note of that, Bender introduces young Rose Edelstein….
Some sign of my own
There was a span of time in the early to mid-aughts where I would buy every man I was romantically interested in a copy of An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender. I…
The particular emptiness of ‘Lemon Cake’
Right before her ninth birthday, Rose has a bite of a lemon cake her mom baked. It was a practice cake to make sure the recipe was right for the big occasion, Rose’s birthday. In…
Book Links: Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, a memorial for DFW, and books + alcohol
Over at The Rake Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (which I will finish reading some day) and the fantastic collection of short…
Book Links: NBA Noms, funny literary definitions, and some other stuff
We should all give it up for local indie publishers for publishing not one but two National Book Award Nominees. Coffee House Press is responsible for Patricia Smith’s poetry collection Blood Dazzler and Graywolf has…