Top to bottom: I am a huge fan of Atticus Lish’s 2014 novel Preparation for the Next Life, and I’m a fan of indie Tyrant Books, but I’d never heard of his 2011 collection of [...]

Challenge, 1940 by Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)

Breakfast James Joyce’s Burnt Kidney Breakfast Thomas Pynchon’s Banana Breakfast Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque Soup Donald Barthelme’s Fine Oxtail Soup and Lentil Soup Gordon [...]

“To Be Hungry Is to Be Great” by William Carlos Williams The small, yellow grass-onion, spring’s first green, precursor to Manhattan’s pavements, when plucked as it comes, in [...]

Hilda’s Turkey Hash 1 pound diced cooked turkey meat (white & dark) 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons butter 2 medium onions, diced Salt to taste, pepper too 1 red sweet pepper, diced (A [...]

Food I was preparing a meal for Celeste-a meal of a certain elegance, as when arrivals or other rites of passage are to be celebrated. First off there were Saltines of the very best quality and of a [...]

“Bread” by Sharon Olds When my daughter makes bread, a cloud of flour hangs in the air like pollen. She sifts and sifts again, the salt and sugar close as the grain of her skin. She heats [...]

  No one wanted to cook that night. We all got in the car and went out to the commercial strip in the no man’s land beyond the town boundary. The never-ending neon. I pulled in at a place that [...]

And all of this, which was true of me, was true also for each of the others. And for her: she contained and was contained with equal happiness, and she welcomed us and loved and inhabited all [...]

“Lud wishes to know,” Whike relays at last, “Mr. Emerson’s Cousin’s Views, upon the Structure of the World.” “A Spheroid, the last I heard of it, Sir.” “Ahr Ahr ahr, ’ahr [...]