notes
“There are times when I haven’t written for six months but I know I’m still a poet. I’m reading and loving and feeding the dog.” - poet Ada Limón during a visit to Arkansas
“Their relationship—intense, wary, mysterious—lasted a half century.” - what editor Robert Gottlieb & writer Robert Caro had seems increasingly rare in the writing world
“The translation is much better than the original.” - from one of my coffee conversations with writer Elena Poniatowska
“My husband was already more dead than alive.” - an Arkansas poultry processing worker discussing the impact of an accident at the poultry plant where her husband worked
“I’m not an optimist. I’m stubborn. We don’t need hope. We need tenacity.” - I read this quote by writer Cristina Rivera Garza to remind me that I need tenacity to finish my books.
Closing in favor of untidy resolutions,
Alice
News & Events
I won a James Beard Award in investigative reporting with the team at Civil Eats, Christina Cooke and Gosia Wozniacka, for our series Injured and Invisible, on the animal agriculture industry.
I will spend six weeks at Yaddo Artist Retreat (Yaddo writers include Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote)
I went down a rabbit hole with lab-grown meat for CNN
One of my favorite newsletters, From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, featured my writing on lab-grown meat (subscribe & order her forthcoming book: No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating)
Such a beautiful place to lose oneself AND find oneself. ❤️