Poor Man's Feast
Elissa Altman, Eleanor AnstrutherThe James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 349 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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a list for a complicated week
Some Bits of Beauty During a Difficult Time
It’s been a tough time.
on being the enemy.
Turandot at the Met for her 80th birthday, 2015
The problem with going through a parent’s things is something no one ever talks about: you come to not only understand who they really were by peeking under the hood, but you also learn...
A List: The things that are quieting my heart right now
[On Dolly, Sweet Corn, and a World on Fire]
Join me for my Permission and Memoir Workshops:
rowing for years on the midsummer pond*
Photo by Katerina Shkribey on Unsplash
My grandmother used to tell me that you could predict exactly how hot and muggy it was going to be by the state of berries on the vine: if they were soft, and oozing thick, dark juice in mid-August, t...
From the archives: a blue comma on the map of the world
Provincetown Harbor at dusk.
I came to Provincetown for the first time in the summer of 1988, during a tectonic shift.
I had left someone I secretly loved at home in Manhattan and joined my father, step-mother, and her adult childr...
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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.
A PERFECT EXPLANATION (Salt Books) A MEMOIR IN 65 POSTCARDS & THE RECOVERY DIARIES (Troubador) IN JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS (Troubador) FALLOUT (Empress Editions) - rep'd by Jenny Savill ANA
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