Stefanie Hollmichel is an accomplished gardener, voracious reader and all around Nice Person. The first two things I know from being a long-time fan of her So Many Books blog, the third because she wrote me a series of real good, olde timey letters a few years back—and would, perhaps, still be doing so if…
Tag: Brain Food
Brain/Food: a 21st-century Tasha Tudor
Tasha Brandstatter is one of my internet people. For a while, we both wrote for the sadly now retired Food Riot, but long before that, we knew each other as book bloggers. (I think I even once wrote a guest post for her Truth, Beauty, Freedom, & Books site about what constitutes a Classic…which is hilarious,…
Brain/Food: never mind the question, the answer is probably dark chocolate
Ying Lee, known in your local YA lit-friendly bookstore as Y.S. Lee, is known to me as one of the people I know sensible enough to do a PhD (inherently unsensible) in Victorian Literature. We knew each other during the Dark Times (grad school) and while I felt and looked like a gibbering mess all…
Brain/Food: I really ought to be reading Jonas Jonasson right now
Fred Sweet is both unfairly photogenic and unnaturally smart. He is also very patient; I’ve been sitting on this interview for at least a month and not finding the time to post it. Mea culpa, mea culpa! Dr. Sweet, who teaches Classics, will confirm that this is Latin for “I suck.” We’re having a snow…
Brain/Food: relying on monkeys in emergency situations
Brook Nymark is just some guy I met in Halifax, years ago. I don’t know much about him except that he likes books, food, running, has a gigantic head, and looks like a dock worker. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Who is your literary boyfriend or girlfriend? (They need not still be living, or they can be a character…
Brain/Food: now with more cupcakes and jokes, fewer footnotes!
David Alexander is a pleasing study in contradictions; on the one hand, he is thoughtful, very well-read, likes poetry written after 1600 (madness), and is a real live activist. On the other hand, he is hilarious, likes hockey (he once forced me, his wife, an d my husband to sit in one of the scariest…
Brain/Food: “Anything by Ayn Rand” is the correct answer
Sheetal Lodhia and I met in grad school. We both did Very Serious academic work studying the English Renaissance; we had the same thesis supervisor. Which makes it extra funny that I don’t recall ever talking to Sheetal about the Renaissance, even when we found ourselves at the same conference in Toronto one year. (I…
Brain/Food: no Wilson volleyballs required
Terry Woo is a dry, straight-talking, hilarious, bitter, genius who I don’t know very well, but who I like a lot. Here’s what I know about Terry: He once encouraged me to run away to South Korea to marry Psy, so my husband could hang out with him (Terry, not Psy) more often. He likes…
Jam and Idleness 
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