Poor Man's Feast —

A note from the author of Poor Man’s Feast
Hello friends.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written here, and a lot has happened over the last year: Motherland was published in both hardcover and audio by Ballantine Books and PRH Audio. I went on a book tour, and spoke with many people — sons of NPD fathers...

All over my office: pictures.
Stacks, everywhere.
On a cold night in 2017, I carried out of my mother’s apartment an old brown and gold vinyl club bag — the kind one might bring to the gym in 1976 — filled with curling photos, papers, report cards, publicity clippings (hers), letters home from camp...

Ten years ago, when I launched Poor Man’s Feast, I could not have dreamt the places it would take me; since 2008, there have been two memoirs with (mostly) food at their core and, coming in 2019, a third, the catalyst of which was a yearlong column I...

“I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.”
– Seamus Heaney
Look at the image; inhale.