[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-tea-and-cakes-and-writing":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yauatcha1-9fbb28541c.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nYesterday I went with \u003Ca href=\"www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mylagoldberg.com/bio.html\">Myla Goldberg\u003C/a> to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.urbanpath.com/london/chinese/yauatcha.htm\">Yauatcha\u003C/a> in Soho, just around the corner from \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick_Street_Market\">Berwick Street Market\u003C/a>, for the most amazing dim sum and teacake selection! Ellen and Myla are both sophisticated New York literary people, so I felt like we should have been talking about complicated plot structures and things, but all I could think about was the cake:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yauatcha7-146df19dc1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Two more cake photos-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yauatcha5-0f2d507101.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yauatcha3-57f86e0274.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy favourites were the white macaroons filled with what I think was almond paste and poppy seeds... mmmm. \\r\nOkay, sated by cake, I can now say that Myla's fascinating (even more fascinating than cake, really!) and I'm going straight away to read her bestselling novel, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Season\">\u003Ci>Bee Season\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. (You can read \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385498802/ref=s9_simz_gw_s1_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0PY3N812ARVBJ6ATGAYQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938131&pf_rd_i=507846\">over 300 reviews of it on Amazon\u003C/a>.) Myla's also written another novel called \u003Ci>Wickett's Remedy\u003C/i>, and she and her comics-making husband \u003Ca href=\"http://www.beecomix.com\">Jason Little\u003C/a> are working on new books while they're doing a summer house-swap to London from their place in Brooklyn. And if you haven't read Ellen Lindner's Coney-Island-set graphic novel, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com/comics/undertow.htm\">\u003Ci>Undertow\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, then what are you doing? She's also posted some great sketches from her \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenlindner.livejournal.com/37164.html\">recent trip to southern India\u003C/a>. We were talking about her latest graphic novel project, it sounds really exciting - keep an eye on \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenlindner.livejournal.com\">her blog\u003C/a> to see what she's up to.\\r\n\\r\nJust to prove to myself that I AM working on the \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/birdsong_comic/\">\u003Ci>Birdsong\u003C/i> anthology\u003C/a>, I'm posting the text I wrote for it this morning. I think the comic is going to peter out into wordlessness as the story kicks in. It's about something that happened to me at \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse_Basin\">Limehouse Basin\u003C/a> when I first got to London and didn't know anyone except Stuart. So 'morning writing' today instead of a morning sketch. (Hmm, I think sketches look nicer. The text in this one doesn't do a whole lot, other than set it up.) \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/birdsong_text1-07c93a5290.jpg\">","2009-08-21T09:39:00.000Z","tea-and-cakes-and-writing",[],"tea and cakes and writing",1776628733158]