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I ts a testament to Kate Lebos curiosity, knowledge and sheer writing chops that she can spend a chapter describing a fruit called a durian as tasting like "peaches laced with onions and garbage" and smelling "a little like turpentine" yet leave you wanting to merrily try some for yourself — laughing all the way. The durian is just one of the featured foods in Lebos new The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes), and while you might not actua...

Kate Lebo: The Book of Difficult Fruit review - a rich, juicy delight | reviews, news & interviews Kate Lebo: The Book of Difficult Fruit review - a rich, juicy delight Kate Lebo: The Book of Difficult Fruit review - a rich, juicy delight Essays on tricky and fascinating fruits, food and medicine, pain and care by Jessica PaynTuesday, 27 April 2021 Essayist, poet and pie-lady Kate Lebo, who lives in Spokane, Washington© Heather Malcolm Two years ago, I became preoccupied with bee...

New Books by NER Authors It’s been a busy publication month for NER authors! Emily Pittinos, published in NER40.1, released her debut book of poems, The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press), a compilation of tender reflections both elegiac and ecological rooted in the domestic and natural worlds. Essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo recently published The Book of Difficult Fruit (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes) centered on...

Five PNW memoirs to read for Independent Bookstore Day 2021 From Brandi Carlile’s ascent to stardom to an aching memoir of love in times of war, add these books to your spring reading list. by From left, Northwest writers Kate Lebo (photo by Melissa Heale), Mortada Gzar (Jonathan Reibsome), Sonora Jha (Ellie Kozlowski), Brandi Carlile (Austin Hargrave) and Elissa Washuta (Marcus Jackson), all of whom have new memoirs out this spring. Itching to connect with humanity again? Maybe even m...

ever is coming to Washington. Half a year after its theatrical release in Japan, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train will tour American theaters. Yes! Movie theaters. We can go to those now. The movie is based on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the wildly popular anime and manga series that follows Tanjiro Kamado, a teen who turned to demon-slaying after a demon killed his entire family and turned his sister, Nezuko, into a demon. In season one, Tanjiro and a pacified Nezuko comb Japan looking for a wa...

In The Book of Difficult Fruit, author Kate Lebo regularly references the Doctrine of Signatures, ancient theory found in multiple cultures that one can glean the medicinal properties of plants by the part of the body they resemble. God made it easy for us, the theory goes, and made flowers that look like eyes to treat eye infections, plants with red extracts for the blood, and womb-shaped fruit for birth. It’s pseudoscience of the highest order, but the point is not whether it works, but wh...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn April is showering us with an abundance of books. • 26 min read Escape into 34 books this April April showers bring May flowers. Well, this April is showering us with an abundance of verdant and colorful books, all delighting the senses like an unexpected flower patch. Novels translated from Italian and German, memoirs about murder and massacres, hilarious essay collections, poignant short stories and many foo...

I ts a testament to Kate Lebos curiosity, knowledge and sheer writing chops that she can spend a chapter describing something as tasting "like peaches laced with onions and garbage" and smelling "a little like turpentine" and youll want to merrily try some for yourself — laughing all the way. Of course, you probably wont get the 38-year-old Lebo to join for another round of the spikey fruit called a durian, grown primarily in Southeast Asia and only found through some digging through Spok...