Welcome to Librovore!
A biweekly newsletter on food, books, art and culture with 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Lisa Lee Herrick delivered every other week. ✍🏼📧
Are you a Librovore?
Love food? Good.
Love reading? Great, me too.
Love talking about art, media and culture in a way that no one else is writing or talking about? We definitely should talk.
Librovore is a portmanteau of libro (book) + vore (to devour), which is often how I describe myself when people ask what I do: I’m a food writer, essayist, journalist, magazine editor, illustrator, film geek, and ultra-compulsive reader. My librarian knows me on a first name basis. Trust me: you want me on your Trivial Pursuit team. And I want to hear about what you’re eating and reading, or thinking about eating and reading, wherever you are in the world.
As a subscriber of Librovore, you’ll receive an e-newsletter every two weeks:
Meaningful conversations about food and the literary arts at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and world history—plus creative nonfiction writing insights based on my recent classroom visits or guest lectures.
Recipes included for paid subscribers.
An excerpt from a book that I just can’t put down, a.k.a. The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week. All genres. New and recent releases + classics, too.
Links to five published pieces online, from emerging and established writers, that blew my mind (no paywalls).
Original artwork. No endlessly scrolling word bricks, I promise.
No excessive and multiple emails. I only send the good stuff when it’s ready.
Librovore is 100% community supported. Your subscription helps boost the stories, voices, and perspectives that no one else is publishing . . . yet.
Thanks for being here, and for believing in the value of these conversations. And feel free to share this little corner of Substack with your friends. 💋 XOXO Lisa