Into the Margins: Talking with Siglio Press
Founder and publisher Lisa Pearson discusses Siglio Press.
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Posts by: Lisa Mecham
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
“You’ve got a problem, Mom. I mean, it’s a good problem, but it’s a problem,” said my daughter when she walked into my office the other day and saw the stacks of books I brought back from AWP.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I once read a quote that to consider adultery in literature is to consider literature itself. These past few weeks, the complexities of romantic relationships kept popping up…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I have an obsession with post-apocalyptic literature. There’s something oddly reassuring about reading far-fetched accounts of the future.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
My dad loves to cook and he’s a bit of a mushroom fanatic so an online search for a unique holiday book led me here. And while I was there, I decided to look around a bit, as I’d never come across Pioneers Press before. And then I saw The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting The […]
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
You know it’s a small world when you devour a book and you Google the author because you want to profess your undying love for her words and you notice she gave a reading at The Last Bookstore in October and you text Zoë Ruiz and she reminds you that you were, in fact, at […]
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook rested on my parent’s bookshelf alongside The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique and The Edible Woman. As a girl, I liked to peek at the books in this particular grouping as if I could sense their power, even if I was too young to understand the feminist movement they were […]
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I wouldn’t be much of a book columnist if I didn’t celebrate Alice Munro and her much deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. It surprises me, the number of people who have never read Munro. If you’re one of them, you might start here. In 2004, Jonathan Franzen made an appeal in The New York Times […]
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In David’s Inferno: My Journey Through the Dark Woods of Depression, David Blistein retraces the diagnosis of his complicated depressive disorder and deftly captures the elusive nature of the illness: The experience of it being so unspeakably bright out there and so dark in here is one of the most humiliating aspects of depression. As […]
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes triumphed over unimaginable odds to become one of Chicago’s finest chefs. I read the recipes, made his delicious “Potted Chicken,” but it was the “Sketch […]
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
Growing up, I learned to play the piano from a hunchbacked nun at a local, catholic university. After my lesson was over, after she scowled at my clumsy fingers and scrawled the word “practice” over and over again in the margins of my music, I would wait for my mom to pick me up. As […]
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