SPICY MEAT PATTIES
For a couple of years now I have been making spiced patties on the grill, out of varying mixtures of ground beef, lamb and pork. Sometimes I shape them like little...
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RED COOKED OXTAIL A while ago I was buying meat from Autumn Harvest farm and saw in their cooler two packages of meat not listed on the whiteboard: oxtails. They were...
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Earlier this week I read a Huffington Post piece about the writer Marie Calloway. It had a provocative title: “MARIE CALLOWAY PUSHES THE BOUNDERIES OF WHAT’S...
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THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN By Christina Stead  Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children is one of the most relentless novels I have ever read, comparable only...
Read MoreAGAINST A NOVELIST’S METAPHOR
I wrote this poem in response to an interview I heard on NPR with a Granta editor. He had edited an issue with new, young novelists whom he characterized as bold and...
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