scary stuff – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 November 30 https://orangette.net/2016/11/november-30/ https://orangette.net/2016/11/november-30/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:56:41 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9748 I’ve always been drawn to the things we’re not supposed to talk about. I remember the night when, toward the end of writing A Homemade Life, I got into bed, switched off the light, and suddenly was hit with a very bad idea, an almost electric impulse to write about my father’s death. I wanted to take it out of my head and put it somewhere else: the color of his skin, the strange percussion of his breath, the nurse calling up the stairs in the middle of the night. I wasn’t writing a book about my dad, and I wasn’t writing a book about death; I was writing a food memoir, tra la la, with fifty recipes and a…

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