Crystal Wilkinson
@crystalwilki
Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
Ocean Vuong blessed us all in Kentucky. I'm lifted by his deeply moving tribute to Black letters and his brilliance and heart. A big thanks to @carmichaels.bsky.social for bringing us this gladness. We were inspired/changed.
Thank you @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social for riding shotgun while I drove around in a frenzy searching for the wallamelon man. Happy days!
Happy Birthday @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social Thank you for being the peace, the calm, the glue, the love.
There's a shoulder poem in me somewhere. It's been trying to break me since June but I haven't quite written it yet.
This is a photo of me at 7:30 am this morning with Stefan. I have a love/hate relationship with Stefan's ass and my shoulder hates his guts. He's good at his job tho. Today he released me from his services and my shoulder is at 80%. I'll be taking over my own progress from here.
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social Congratulations on another great reading!
These are my people. Aunt Lovester's great-grandfather discovered Boneyville, Kentucky. Legends. Remember them. Remember us.
Grateful for a beautiful night of words and a sold-out house at @themercantilelib. What kind staff and stewards. Nights like this are a brilliant respite from the rest. Being in this special place felt like a sort of church. I hope to get back soon.
I so enjoyed talking to Ebony Lumumba at the Mississippi Book Festival.
If you're in DC, slide through Politics&Prose (Union Market) at 3 pm Today!! www.politics-prose.com/crystal-wilk...
Whew! Publishing this book felt like the slowest process then suddenly...BOOM..we're three days from pub day and about to hit the road. Tour details are in my bio.
What a moving experience. I talk about it over at IG.https://www.instagram.com/p/C2CvWkvOAGm/?igsh=enZwbWNheTV0OWRi
Hoecakes, black-eyed peas, cabbage, greens. We're ready for all the luck and prosperity and peace and blessings. We wish them for you, too.
Tour for Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. Hopefully I'm coming somewhere near you.💙💙
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Part memoir, part cookbook, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts weaves those stories together with recipes, family photos, and a lyrical imagination to present a culinary portrait of a family that has lived and worked the earth of the mountains for over a century.