Tonje Thilesen
The day Joe Biden won the election, Michelle Zauner was high on mushrooms in the Adirondacks in upstate New York on the worst hike of her life.
“We microdosed on mushrooms, which had been really pleasant for me in the past. But I had never microdosed and had to continue walking, you know? I always just sit somewhere and enjoy spacing out,” says Zauner over Zoom, her voice getting louder as she describes the five hour trek. “It was basically hell on earth. I’d never done a hike like that, and I never want to do it again. It felt like going to Mordor.” But, never one to be deterred so easily, Zauner kept walking.
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Mark your calendars Greenville s art festival is back, and this year it s safe, small and socially distant.
The 17th annual Artisphere presented by TD Bank will line downtown streets all weekend long with a lineup of more than 100 artists and live musical performances.
An estimated average attendance of 69,703 has helped the festival make an economic impact of about $5.8 million annually, according to the Artisphere website.
Here s what to know before you go this year:
► When: Friday, May 7, noon to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 8, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, May 9, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., rain or shine.
PIHLADELPHIA â Before Michelle Zauner wrote Crying in H Mart, her heartbreakingly beautiful memoir about grief, food, and her Korean American identity, she had already created two works of art about losing her mother, Chongmi, to cancer in 2014: the Japanese Breakfast albums Psychopomp and Soft Sounds from Another Planet. Psychopomp opens with In Heaven, with a verse about the family dog being confused by a sudden absence: She just paces around all day, sniffing at your empty room / I m trying to believe when I sleep it s really you visiting my dreams, like they say that angels do. When I wrote Psychopomp, I was in a very raw and vulnerable place, Zauner says. That was the year after my mom had passed and things were still fresh, so that album is very much about that.