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Event Details
Tuesday, July 13 at 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Processed Meat: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster
Authors Uncovered, the long time collaboration between Wilkinson Public Library and Between the Covers Bookstore, that brings author talks to the community is back this summer with talks and signings with Torrey House Press authors. Books will be available for sale from BTC at each event! You can also check out a library copy to read.
About Processed Meats:
Nicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping when she failed to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she searched for ways to cope with stay-at-home orders and ecological turmoil through food. Similarly, her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and congealed beef broth into aspic as a surefire cure for ailment. She cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself—to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Throughout the richly layered essays of Processed Meats, Walker ponders food choices and life choices, dissecting how we process disaster, repackage it, and turn it into something edible.
About Nicole Walker:
Nicole Walker is the author of The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet; Sustainability: A Love Story; A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins; and other books. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School, and elsewhere. Recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and noted in multiple editions of The Best American Essays, Walker is the nonfiction editor at Diagram and professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Event Type(s): WPL Programs
Age Group(s): Adult
