I am, once again, woefully behind schedule here. I have read many books — so far, all by women — in 2012, and will give you all my thoughts on them soon. But for now, I wanted to share a review I wrote for The Nervous Breakdown of Amy Monticello‘s first essay chapbook, Close Quarters.
Amy and I know each other from college, so when I decided to review her book, I pitched the idea that we play on the famed TNB self-interview by doing a reverse interview, from writer to reader. So, Amy asked me questions about Close Quarters, which I answered essay-style in my latest TNB piece, “You Will Never Know: A Review of Amy Monticello’s Close Quarters.”
Read & enjoy — and then make sure to purchase Amy’s book, hand-bound (!!!) from Sweet Publications!
When I was twenty years old, I watched PETA’s “Meet Your Meat” in a rhetoric class and became a vegetarian. Seven years later, I decided to start eating meat again–for ethical reasons. This blog is about that journey and all its complications, from the humane treatment of animals to labor rights and global poverty, from radical feminist cooking to local, sustainable, affordable recipes. But most of all, it’s about community, about the kitchen as the place where we all sit down together and eat.
