I really love baking and I really love books. The most recent book that I absolutely loved was Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Egan writes with utter authority. No author anxiety or pretension poking through. She manages to set some of her writing in the future in a way that is completely believable (and scary and beautiful and heartbreaking). A friend of mine, who is an up-and-coming writer herself, sent me the video below.
Emily Gould is perhaps best known for her notorious New York Times Magazine piece on blogging for Gawker and going through an epic breakup. Her story received 1216 comments, most of them indignant. Gould now hosts a cooking/book show (she interviews authors and they make a dish together). What a great concept! You know, I like Gould’s honesty about life. I like the questions she has for the authors. Maybe I’ll read her book And the Heart Says Whatever sometime. Whatever.
Here is Jennifer Egan making macaroons with Emily Gould. I’ve never made macaroons but now I’m tempted to try.
I started the Goon Squad, but returned to the library unfinished – maybe I’ll give it another try.