Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Vermont author Adam Federman, whose new book is Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray (Chelsea Green).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to look for inspiration in a cookbook. So, for example, in my kitchen I do have the cookbook by Salvadore Dali, which is titled Les Diners de Gala. In opening the book, I find many things. Recipes like Lobster with Black Pearls, Ramekins of Frog’s Legs, and Tripe of Yesteryear. Maybe you’ll open a more tame cookbook, and find an inscription from a friend, reminding you of a long-ago birthday or anniversary. Maybe you’ll be inspired by a photograph of a lamb chop with mint jelly. Or maybe a recipe for turkey with roquefort will inspire you to write about a family celebrating thanksgiving in France. Whatever you find, let it be the way into this week’s writing.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro
Geraldine Brooks - Archive Interview #336 (3/2/15)
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Marilyn Graman - Archive Interview #333 (2/9/15)
Heidi Durrow - Archive Interview #332 (2/2/15)
Emily Forland - Interview #331 (1/26/15)
Tari Prinster - Interview #330 (1/19/15)
Sharon M. Draper - Interview #329 (1/12/15)
Cathy Ostlere - Archive Interview #328 (1/5/15)
William Lychack - Archive Interview #327 (12/29/14)
Angela Palm and Malisa Garlieb - #326 (12/22/14)
Stephen Cramer - Interview #325 (12/15/14)
Wendy Call - Interview #324 (12/8/14)
J. Robert Lennon - Interview #323 (12/1/14)
Nancy Marie Brown - Archive Interview #322 (11/24/14)
Meg Wolitzer - Interview #321 (11/17/14)
Robert Boswell - Interview #320 (11/10/14)
Jacqueline Woodson - Interview #319 (11/3/14)
Thea Lewis - Interview #318 (10/31/2014)
Vikram Chandra - Interview #317 (10/20/14)
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