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From 2004 to 2018, Molly Wizenberg ran the popular food blog Orangette, and
in that time she wrote two memoirs: A Homemade Life, which blended recipes
with stories about her family, and Delancey, which chronicled the experience of
opening a restaurant with her husband. With The Fixed Stars (Abrams, Aug.),
which received a starred review from PW, Wizenberg charts new territory,
professionally and personally. At 36, she fell in love with a woman, and her
book takes readers through the separation, divorce, and period of transformative
self-exploration that followed.In 2018 you wrote on Orangette of learning to write without the “handy
crutch that food and recipes had become.” How did food act as a
crutch for you, and how did you learn to write without it?
When I teach writing, I talk a lot about how to rebuild a scene in one’s past, and
go back in and spend time there. That’s what food did for me. It gave me this
tangible entry into any scene about human beings, myself or those around me.
When I was writing about food, I was always writing about where food inter-
sected with relationships. This book is also about relationships, and what wasPW talks with Molly Wizenberg
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MY LIFE IN SEVEN DOGS
A new memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan,
New York Times bestselling author of
She’s Not There: A Life in Two GendersHardcover ISBN 9781250261878“This tender memoir of identity is a powerful tribute to the
ways people and dogs come in all shapes and sizes”
~Diane Naughton, Bookseller, Bards Alley (Vienna, VA)“Boylan... shares encouragement and guidance for those
facing their own emotional struggles, noting that while
hers weren’t easy to overcome, self-acceptance awaited
her at her journey’s end.”
~Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewCeladon Books is a division of Macmillan
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