Showing posts with label korean deli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label korean deli. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2011

ooh-la-la: 3 things that catch my eye


...you had me at "true".



"My Korean Deli" is a funny and candid memoir by Ben Rhyder Howe, a former senior editor at the Paris Review. In it he recounts time spent helping his immigrant in-laws to buy and run a convenience store in Brooklyn. Literary days at the Paris Review with the famous George Plimpton are now sandwiched between bodega nights and an odd assortment of characters. "Risking it all for a convenience store" the irony of those words alone is intriguing!