A Wealth of Newsletters

Of the Week: What I'm reading, writing, and eating

Reading

The same roster of books as last week, with the addition of The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos by Mark Easter. Tune in two weeks from now to see if I’ve finished any books! Otherwise, I’ve been readings submissions to Rose Books Reader, and, unrelated, thousands of words in birth and death records on the Ancestry app.

Some essential newsletters I’ve read lately:

• Pound for Pound, Bean for Bean by

  TPWSYL

• Tell me about despair, yours by

  Apoorva Sripathi

• A feminist turn toward annihilation. by

  Raechel Anne Jolie

• Ode to a green dress by

  Cameron Steele

• invisible labour, invisible food costs by

  dr. sarah duignan

• Indulgences and The Consumer Imaginary by

  Jon Randell Smith

• On Hurricanes by

  Alicia Kennedy

• For the Love of Olives and Palestine by

  Sarah May Grunwald

• The Length of a Life by

  Clare Michaud

• Wigner's Friend by

  Karmela Padavic Callaghan

• Honey and Spice by

  Natalie McGill

• The World's Most Lethal Fighting Force by

  Noha Beshir

• Moving out of Stuckness by

  Jesse Roth

• A Dream of Gold and Green by Ana Kinsella for

  Vittles

Writing

I submitted a grant report and an assignment in the last few weeks. Now I’m working on final preparations for the panel I’m hosting at ASU’s writing conference next week titled, “Do It Together: The Possibilities of Collaborative Publishing.” I’m really looking forward to asking Charissa and Vic of Paper Jam + Print questions about how they run their print shop. And if you’re local, I’m going to be reading at an offsite event on Thurs Oct 10 at 7pm at Neighborhood Services Bar + Restaurant if you want to come by.

Eating

Donuts from my favorite local shop, BoSa. (In college I wrote an essay about them for the student newspaper. The love is longstanding.) Cabbage that I seared then braised in a soy, gochujang, and garlic broth. Barrio Bread’s mesquite baguette with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. And I finally made farinata (from Extra Good Things) for dinner last night. We had it with jammy onions, hard boiled eggs, an artichoke dip from Costco, roasted carrots and salad — and will be repeating!

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