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Month: April 2022

How Literature Defines Food

Eating is frequently mentioned in the literature, however, it is usually in a symbolic or utilitarian context. Consider all the links to Dorsia in American Psycho or Rabbit Angstrom’s peanut-brittle obsession in John Updike’s final Rabbit novel. Even in the palms of masters, food sequences might feel like filler or filigree rather than substance in […]

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