What goes better together than wine and cheese? Authors and cheese. The Airship paired ten gourmet cheeses with famous writers. Virginia Woolf goes well with a Bayley Hazen Blue. “This Stilton-like blue is a mix of narratives – the Mrs. Dalloway of cheeses, if you will.”
East of Edam
The Trees! They’re Glowing!
Some amateur biologists are at work replacing lamps with bio-luminescent trees and flowers, reports Andrew Pollack for The New York Times. Meanwhile South Korean scientists have barking up an entirely different tree for the past two years. (I’m sorry for the pun; here’s an image of a glowing beagle to make amends.)
Make Way for Ward
Jesmyn Ward signed a deal for two books with Simon & Schuster: one adult novel with Scribner and the other a middle-grade novel with Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, according to Publisher's Weekly. From our archives: Ward's 2017 Year in Reading entry and our interview with the two-time National Book Award winner.
Airport Casualties
“I would venture to assume that all Muslim Americans felt the weight of this paradox in the years after September 11th, and never more so than when at the airport.” On the post-9/11 world, over at The Rumpus.
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Producing The Counselor
When The Counselor (trailer here) opens in theaters this month, the occasion will mark a career milestone for Cormac McCarthy. The 80-year-old novelist has been writing original screenplays since the 1970s, but only one of them – a made-for-TV movie called The Gardener’s Son – was produced before this latest effort. Over at The Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Alter takes a look at the author’s involvement in the production of The Counselor, as well as its reception by several film industry insiders and devout McCarthy fans. ("McCarthy writing a sex scene is maybe not a great idea," one of them says.)
Reflecting on Baldwin
Toni Morrison wrote an obituary for James Baldwin in The New York Times, published December 20, 1987 and online for you to read. “Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and invites contemplation instead. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I know.” Justin Campbell reflects on Baldwin, race, and fatherhood.
Not quite on point, and includes TV characters, but what about:
a.) Rumpole of the Bailey and Brie (just so he can shout “Bringgg Me My Brie!”) to She Who Must Be Obeyed.
b.) Edith Pargeter’s Brother Cadfael and a nice Shropshire Blue on a bed of medicinal herbs.
c.) Agatha Christie’s Poirot and a suspicious Limburger on black bread.
Moe Murph
Just tweeted H. James as gorgonzola. I live in Cornwall, where yarg is made: soft & creamy, wrapped in luscious green nettle leaves – DH Lawrence lived for a time near Zennor, was arrested as a spy with Frieda on suspicion of signalling to WWI German subs because they had mismatched curtains in their cottage; his writing is lyrically poetic at heart, but with an acerbic outer edge…So, Lawrence as yarg.