Poor Man's Feast
Elissa AltmanThe James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 360 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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a time to move forward
I loved my mother.
God, I loved her so much that it was sometimes unfathomable, and unquantifiable. I loved her endlessly and wildly, and I thought that our emotional proximity to each other was completely normal. My love for her was outs...
In the Bardo with My Mother
My mother would have been ninety-one today; October is the month of her birth and the month of her death. I wrote this last year, a week prior to losing her. I was not prepared for how complicated this month would be for me, a year later. G...
In the Bardo with My Mother
My mother would have been ninety-one today; October is the month of her birth and the month of her death. I wrote this last year, a week prior to losing her. I was not prepared for how complicated this month would be for me, a year later. G...
when you can sense the hand of the maker
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This is the problem, and also the point:
One doesn’t know what is real, and what is not.
It has been long-planned: if you distract the general population long enough — get them addicted to scrolling, to...
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Elissa Altman is the award-winning author of PERMISSION: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create (GODINE), and memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man's Feast. Her new book, WHERE YOU USED TO BE, is forthcoming from Godine.
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