Desert Island Dish?

[ellenkushner]

After a week in the Wilds of Maine (where we both got huge amounts done on our novels), Delia informed me that I was the person she would most like to be stranded with on a Desert Island - Aww, thinks I, how sweet! - because, she says, I am always able to forage and find decent food, wherever we are.

Could this have anything to do with a certain event in a roadside cafe involving biscuits and a napkin? or those windfall apples . . . . ?

In other news, one of my oldest friends, poet & critic Debra Cash, has posted an interesting brief piece bringing together Israeli writer Shlomo DuNour's Adiel - a novel about Noah's flood - and the recent hurricane on the American gulf coast' She begins: "The levees had not yet been breached when I met the Angel Adiel . . . I never imagined this Biblical imagining would arrive in time to be illustrated by CNN."

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From the Angels

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Debra just wrote me to say: "I heard from Shlomo DuNour's daughter (who must be in her 60s) who said the article ran on what would have been his 85th birthday, which I take to mean that the angels were indeed involved..."