Monkey Monday: making excuses edition 22 September 2008 11:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,geekery,monkeys,school , trackbackToday’s TracyFood is brought to you late by my shiny new MacBook and iPod Touch. Holy monkey gods, new toys are time-consuming and addictive. It was all I could do to tear myself away from the new laptop and take the Touch downtown to the “M. F. K. Fisher: Poet of the Appetites” symposium at The New School. You can watch it here, if you’re interested. It was pretty great, and free for all students, not just The New School’s! Yay!
Now, of course, I have to spend lots more quality time with The Art of Eating
The symposium featured:
- Joan Reardon, Fisher’s biographer several times over, who spoke about the particular difficulties in writing about someone whose work was “unremittingly autobiographical,”
- Judith Jones, one of Fisher’s editors and author of the autobiography The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, which I had to return to the Eugene Public Library unfinished before we moved,
- Amanda Hesser, author of The Cook and the Gardener and Cooking for Mr. Latte, the latter of which was recommended to me literally just last night,
- and Kennedy Friede Golden, M. F. K. Fisher’s youngest daughter.
Next month (October 16, to be exact) the New School is having a forum about Edible Manhattan, a new magazine about the food culture of the island (as distinct from Brooklyn, which has had its own Edible publication for awhile now). It’s free to students, too, and I can’t go because it’s at the same time as my food writing class, ironically enough. Maybe we can have a field trip?
