#Spooktober 28: Bread of the Dead

October 28, 2022

I’m sure you know the Mexican pan de muerto, but we have something similar in Northern Italy and I thought I’d give you the recipe today. Since I’m not much of a cook, it’s free to read to minimize my responsibility in any collateral damage.

Summertime

Paths of the Mirror

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The Universe within a Room

Gaston Bachelard‘s Poetics of Space is the book that gives this week its title, and its central claim, that the house is our first universe, a cosmos before we know the word, is seductive enough that it’s worth resisting for a moment. You know the

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Marina Tsvetaeva’s Room with Three Walls (not to mention the fourth)

Rilke wasn’t chosen at random for this slot, last week, and neither is today’s Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, though I’ll admit I didn’t plan the connection until I went looking for her and found it waiting there already. In the spring of 1926, Tsvetaeva, Rilke, and

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#Spooktober 28: Bread of the Dead

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