April Lindner

Photo by Howard Dinin Anyone who has ever read a cookbook for sheer pleasure--or who appreciates creative writing about the sensuous joys of food--will love the new anthology Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal .   Organized in menu sequence from starters to dessert, Books that Cook features an impressive range of contributors from the culinary world—Julia Child, Fannie Merritt Farmer, James Beard, Alice Waters—and from the world of letters—Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, Nora Ephron...and many others.    Co-editors Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa Goldthwaite introduce each “course” with an essay putting it in historical context.    Tomorrow at Washington D.C.'s fabulous indie bookstore Politics and Prose, Melissa and Jennifer (and a panel of writers including yours truly) will be celebrating Books That Cook . And today Melissa lets me ask her some questions about this delicious project. I’d love to hear about t...

Food meets literature at Politics and Prose Now that the school year is seriously underway, it's officially prime time for book signings, poetry readings, and literary panel discussions.  Over the next few months, I've got quite a few of these lined up.    The first will be this Saturday, September 6,  at one of the nation's finest bookstores, Washington D.C.'s Politics and Prose , in celebration of Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal ,  a scrumptious melange of creative writing about food and creative food writing.  (I'll also be featuring an interview with one of the book's editors, my dear friend Melissa Goldthwaite.  So stay tuned.) In the coming weeks, I'll also be doing a number of Pennsylvania events in Exton, Philadelphia, and Lancaster, plus some events in New York and New Jersey.   Click here for the specifics --and come by and say hi. Also, there's still time to enter to win eight YA books , including the new paperba...