Gregory Dicum is many things: a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Economist, and elsewhere; the author of 6 books, most recently The Pisco Book; and co-founder and President of MondoWindow, a company which enhances the experience of air travel and grew out of his book Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air. You should try it next time you fly.More
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About lisa
Lisa is the author of the award-winning memoir, A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, which was an National Book Critics Circle Top-10 Independent Press Pick for 2011. With Caroline, she's the co-founder of Learning to Eat and co-editor of The Cassoulet Saved our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat. She holds an MA in creative writing, a PhD in English and has taught literature and creative writing widely, most recently in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco.
Posts by Lisa Harper:
Contributor Spotlight: Deborah Copaken Kogan and Paul Kogan
Deborah Copaken Kogan and Paul Kogan wrote our title essay,“The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage.” Without giving away too much, I can tell you that theirs is the story of how their annual Cassoulet Day was created after a decade of marriage, and how a decade later, the painstaking, involved process of making cassoulet for their family and close friends has become a metaphor for the painstaking, involved process of making a long-term marriage work. More
Contributor Spotlight: Jen Larsen
Jen Larsen is having a good spring. Her new book, Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head has just been published by Seal Press to outstanding reviews. It was the lead review in the national print glossy, People and Kirkus writes that “raw vulnerability and rigorous emotional honesty make this weight-loss memoir compelling and memorable.” You should buy it, right after you buy Cassoulet, Better yet, you can buy them at the same time.More
Contributor Spotlight: Bethany Saltman
Bethany Saltman is a Buddhist, a writer, and a parent. Her poetry and essays have been published in literary and popular journals (think Parents, Edible Hudson Valley, Nimrod), but I first found her writing through her popular column in Chronogram, Flowers Fall, which is one of my favorite columns about motherhood. Ever. More
Contributor Spotlight: Lisa McNamara
When Caroline and I started working on this project, one of the first stories I thought of was “Like Mom Never Made.” Lisa McNamara is an amateur baker and an avocational writer who, I knew, had a moving and important story tell. She was exactly the kind of writer we wanted to represent in our collection: someone who might not cook or write about food for a living, but who had a profound story to tell about what food had meant in her life. Also, I had sampled a range of Lisa’s pies and baked goods. I knew she knew her stuff.More