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"Contemporary American Fiction" was drilled into my brain at University and when I taught and wrote it was the main subject. I can't believe it is still what comes out when I type Contemporary and I know that word fiction is coming up next.....

Sorry... you are correct. Contemporary Fiction. Corrected.

I read her A LOT back in my writing days and in college. A giant of contemporary American fiction. Prolific. Consistent. Hugely influential. Her presence was everywhere in the writing workshops of the mid 90s.

Me and my wife snack on this all the time. We call them (rather hyperbolically) "Microwave Nachos." Admittedly, we know that nachos, they are not.

Inspired a generation of players and influenced so many peers.

Thank you for sharing this. 2 more restaurants I won't visit. Not that I ever planned to.

dang!

Road trip together?

Haven't heard of it. Anymore details?

More alive than food 'journalism'. More alive than the love of music in the heart of rock and roll hall of fame ballot voters. More alive than the flavors in a current day shake shack burger.... I could go on....

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I respect him tremendously for his growth and ability to acknowledge it publicly.

"Better than he was before. Better . . . stronger . . . faster..."

I'm glad you are feeling better. Sounds like you were a good and brave patient.

Sneak-- You are one of the few people here that I have met in person-- perhaps more than once. I have no magic words that can make anything better, but know that I am here for you like the rest of the group, and I'm in your neighborhood if you need anything. My life has been touched by the scourge of Cancer so many times and it is never simple, easy or predictable. Be strong. Be forgiving. Be patient.

I'm gutted by this shocking, sudden terrible news.

Good luck. I hope you make some time for yourself to decompress from all of this emotion that must be coursing through you.

I think Steve R and I have a number of racquet sport relatives. I think of @Steve R. more often than he would probably be comfortable knowing.

When I was a child I found this book full of much more exciting and inspiring information that sparked my imagination than any Encyclopedia.

My brother went to school with his offspring. Had not idea he was still alive. Hadn't even thought of him in decades.

Hacks is back and I am very happy. Jean Smart is fantastic and the writing is snarky and dark and dry.

https://pitchfork.com/news/duane-eddy-influential-rocknroll-guitarist-dies-at-86/

Irma Thomas today????

I thought this was interesting (from a different interview with Sietsema): MB In 2010, you wrote an essay in the Columbia Journalism Review that, among other things, traces how far the culture of dining out has come since you first moved to New York City in the late 1970s. Eating in restaurants, you point out, has gone from something most people did somewhat infrequently to becoming one of our primary forms of cultural entertainment. RS Absolutely. MB Of course, that’s great for a lot of reasons. But you also talk about how it’s creating a boom-and-bust cycle for restaurants, where “novelty and buzz is valued above excellence.” RS Things have only slid downhill since 2010. About ninety percent of food writing is still publicist driven. A writer receives a press release by email and then proceeds to follow up on that story, and, in the sadder cases, almost copies the press release. It’s disappointing because food is such a broad and rich category.

Is it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here yet?