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 | 346 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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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...
Where You Used to Be
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash
I did not come se...
A List: The things that are quieting my heart
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making the choice to keep creating
I have spent the last few days in a studio with a wonderful producer, recording the audio edition of Permission. This is the fourth time I’ve done this, each time for a different book, with a different producer, in a different studio. Each...
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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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