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Set Your Hair on Fire

May 20, 2010 by Paula Panich

It’s true, but not entirely. The sign is on the outside of my tiny writing cottage here in L.A. It’s actually only two by five inches (the sign, that is), and the garden is yet a dream. Full shelves of books inside. That counts, along with the dream. But any one of us wanting to […]

Categories: Literary Essays/Book Reviews

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Lewis Hyde and The Blessed Labor of the Imagination

January 26, 2009 by Paula Panich

Two months ago an article appeared in the New York Times Magazine, delivering, on that chilly Sunday morning, a bit of a shock. Titled, “What is Art For?”, the piece, by Daniel B. Smith, is a survey of the thought and work of the poet, essayist, and thinker Lewis Hyde.It felt to me as a […]

Categories: Literary Essays/Book Reviews • Tags: CA; Southern California Mountains, cabin in the woods, California, Idyllwild, landscape, Lewis Hyde, San Jacinto Mountains, The Gift, writing

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Skirball Cultural Center, Democracy, Proposition 8, & Grace

November 7, 2008 by Paula Panich

On Sunday, November 2, my husband and I visited the beautiful Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. It was my first visit. It is an exquisite place, yet another jewel among many in this city’s vibrant cultural life. The mission of the Skirball is “dedicated to exploring the connections of four thousand years of Jewish […]

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

Cultivating Words

The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love

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