{"id":4976,"date":"2020-01-04T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2020-01-04T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:11:59","slug":"cnf-conversations-karen-babine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4976","title":{"rendered":"CNF Conversations: Karen Babine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karen Babine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karen Babine, All the Wild Hungers<\/em>. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2019.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

My sister is pregnant with a lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother\u2019s uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine\u2014a cook, collector of thrifted vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt\u2014can\u2019t help but wonder, \u201cfeed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?\u201d And so, she commits herself to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving headfirst into the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast.<\/p>\n

In an interview we did last year, Karen and I discussed food, family, illness, writing, and love.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This publication was especially bittersweet because it was the last project we worked on with Ned Stuckey-French<\/a> before his death from cancer in the summer of 2019. Ned was the book reviews editor at Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction<\/em><\/a>, where this convo appeared,\u00a0and also a fellow collaborator at\u00a0Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies<\/em><\/a>, which Karen founded and edits, and where I am a senior editor. \u00a0We miss Ned terribly. He edited and framed this literary conversation with his characteristic generosity and wisdom.<\/p>\n

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You can read my conversation with essayist Karen Babine, “A Season of Cooking and Cancer,” here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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