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Throughout her long career, M.F.K. Fisher, rhapsodizes. Whether her subject is peaches, oysters, friendship, flinty wine, sisters, garish cocktails, being young and foolish, betrayal, train rides, or walks in the mountains, hers is the language of romance—including its torment and cruelty. Her writing is always in the rearview, and nothing is boring in hindsight (why remember the unnoteworthy?), which gives Fisher’s writing its tension, no matter the topic. The stakes are high, even at lunch.
“Nostalgia,” wrote Helen Chandler, author of one of my favorite substacks, Old Diaries, is “the emptiest of all the emotions. Calorically dense but nutritionally useless.”
Yet nostalgia, that emotional junk food, may be my favorite narrative engine. Wanting, reaching, the melancholic outstretched hand. Homesickness, the hanging question, the unreachable destination.
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Some writers seem born to the register of hindsight. Joan Didi
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New M.F.K Fisher novel foreshadows tragic loss of her true love
An overlooked manuscript for a rare novel by writer M.F.K. Fisher has been unearthed from the effects of her late agent Robert Lescher and finally brought to print, more than 70 years after she set it aside.
Fisher, who spent her later years in Sonoma Valley, is credited with elevating the art of food writing from cookery to a respected literary genre, using lush and painterly descriptions of place and time, love and relationships, travel and memorable meals where food and hunger frequently served as a central metaphor. In an often-repeated quote, the great poet W.H. Auden said of Fisher, “I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose.”
She was most comfortable and in command writing from her own experience in essays and memoirs. Of the 27 books and six collected works published during her life and posthumously, only two were fiction. And of those, only one, “Not Now But Now,” was published under the name M.F.K. Fisher, a shortening of her given name Mary Frances Kennedy. The second was a forgotten romance written in 1939 under a pseudonym.
For fans and followers of the writer, who died at 84 in the Glen Ellen cottage built for her by friend and patron David Bouverie, the publicati