The Tumbling Tumbleweed To-Be

My recent sighting of the Pik-n-Pig’s portable BBQ Kingdom was clearly a sign of things to come. Turns out my supercool stepson Jason just bought a 17-foot-long trailer, and this is what he’s going to build on it (in the heat of the Arizona summer, not...

Dispatches: Day One & the Pik-n-Pig

Left Philly at 5:15 yesterday morning to make it to Southern Pines, NC, in time for a 4 pm reading at the Country Book Shop. This is my week for touring NC with the paperback of Pig Candy, and I’m concentrated in the Triangle Area of Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill...

World Peace Meets Bling (in a cake)

Pretty much every year, I’ve made my niece Phoebe’s birthday cake. Usually, there’s a lot of pre-baking deliberation — of Talmudic scholar proportions — about themes, flavors, decorative elements, etc. For many years, the cakes had to be...

P-Day! (Pig Candy paperback release day)

Pig Candy is officially out in paperback today! Please pick up a copy this week for everyone you know, want to know, or have ever heard of. “Candid and moving.” –Edwidge Danticat “Perfectly plotted.” –Kirkus Reviews “A...