![]() ![]() On Etsy, I cultivate a wishlist packed with vintage and handcrafted items I admire and can’t own. I don’t think age should be a thing, especially with writingĭo you spend too much time surfing the internet? You can undermine the facts or play games with them. ![]() ![]() As a fiction writer, you don’t have to have a serious relationship with fact. Wikipedia is my first “go to” place, but you also catch yourself thinking, “What if…”. Do you use Wikipedia or are you suspicious of it? Your characters in Gingerbread visit a faraway land that, in your novel, Wikipedia describes as non existent. I’d never dreamt that cabbage and meat could be captured so delicately and exuberantly for the ages. That happened unexpectedly for me last spring when I was confronted with two centuries’-old pieces of sculpture at the National Palace Museum in Taipei: the Jadeite Cabbage and the Meat-Shaped Stone. Are you a cook, generally, or do you prefer eating out?Įating out on some sort of food quest can be a good way to get a sense of a neighbourhood, I think – or I’m trying to justify an afternoon I spent ambling around New York’s Lower East Side trying scallion pancakes at a number of different restaurants.īut I also like the kind of eating you can do with your eyes. ![]()
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