A Brilliant Novel in the Works

Place Settings #13: October 13, 2013

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Eat: In a variation of last week’s breakfast sandwich, I scrambled an egg with some onions and mushrooms, topped with a slice of cheddar cheese, and finished with another bacon lattice.

Drink: Harney & Sons’ Lapsang Souchong, which I love during the colder months. It’s a black tea from China that has been smoke-dried over a pinewood fire. It has a very earthy, smokey flavor; if you like scotch, you’ll like this tea.

Read: I’m almost halfway through Yuvi Zalkow’s A Brilliant Novel in the Works, and mostly enjoying it. The main character, also named Yuvi, is a man whose mental health, marriage, and novel in the works are all about to fall apart, the whole of the breakdown being more spectacular than the sum of its parts.  (more…)