Monthly Archives: May 2020

Home Cooking: Jack Monroe’s Cannelini Beurre Blanc

Posted on 19 May 2020 by andyq

This surprising dish is luxurious and delicious while at the same time being easy to make and very inexpensive. It deserves the same viral popularity as #TheStew in my humble opinion. I stumbled across the recipe in the New York … Continue reading →

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Why we like the writers we do … or not

Posted on 12 May 2020 by andyq

The pages of the print-out are dated 13 January 2009, in fact, more precisely than that: 12:01pm. It’s an article that I liked in Salon.com from 2002. I suspect that years after I first read it (I was reading a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lydia Davis’s The End of the Story

Posted on 11 May 2020 by andyq

The End of the Story by Lydia Davis My rating: 2 of 5 stars I found The End of the Story a confusing book, and yet, it felt like it was purposely so. The narrative and descriptions could be emotionally … Continue reading →

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