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GARLIC IN CULTURE
According to the Bible, Ancient Egyptians fed garlic to the enslaved people who built the pyramids, to keep them healthy and strong, and when King Tutankhamen's tomb was excavated in 1922, cloves of garlic were found inside.
GARLIC FOR PYRAMID BUILDERS: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/131/3/951S/4687053 PLINY: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pliny_elder-natural_history/1938/pb_LCL371.487.xml?readMode=recto
FOODWAYS DIGEST ON GARLIC IN HISTORY https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/digest/article/view/27827/33046 MAGNETS VS GARLIC: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496977.2019.1648924 https://seeingitclearlynow.com/plant-garlic-health-and-folklore/ https://vitalitymagazine.com/article/garlic-medicine-folklore-traditions-from-the-far-east/
Vanessa Veselka | |
|---|---|
 Vanessa Veselka | |
| Born | March 14, 1969 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Reed College |
| Notable works | Zazen |
| Notable awards | PEN / Robert W. Bingham prize |
| Website | |
| vanessaveselka | |
Vanessa Veselka (born March 14, 1969) is an American writer best known for her 2012 PEN / Robert W. Bingham prize prize-winning debut novel Zazen.[1] Her nonfiction has appeared in Salon,[2] The Atlantic,[3] GQ,[4] Maximum Rock'n'Roll, Bitch Magazine, and The American Reader.[5]
In 2013, she was a chosen as a MacDowell Fellow, and her November 2012 GQ piece entitled "The Truck Stop Killer" is part of the 2013 edition of Best American Essays[6].
Personal life
[edit]Veselka's bio says she has been "a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology."[7] In the 1990s she played in the bands Bell and The Pinkos and ran a record label.[8] She graduated from Reed College[9] and lives in Portland, Oregon.[10]
Writing
[edit]Veselka's novel Zazen was serialized online by Arthur Magazine,[11] then published by Richard Nash's imprint Red Lemonade.[12] The book grew out of a short story published by Tin House in 2010,[13] and was nominated for a Ken Kesey Award for Fiction[14] and awarded the $25,000 PEN/Bingham award "for a debut work of fiction that represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise."[15]
Her nonfiction has dealt with issues of women, violence and the road ("Green Screen," The Truck Stop Killer") as well as rape, mental health ("The Collapsible Woman") and unionization ("the Wake of Protest"). Her fiction frequently involves "Buddhist concerns"[16] and geological themes[17].
She is currently at work on a new novel.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "WONDERFUL NEWS: Vanessa Veselka's ZAZEN wins her a major prize from PEN". Arthur Magazine. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Veselka, Vanessa. "Where are the Women Kerouacs". Salon. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ Veselka, Vanessa. "In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon". The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Veselka, Vanessa. "The Truck Stop Killer". GQ. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Veselka, Vanessa. "GREEN SCREEN: THE LACK OF FEMALE ROAD NARRATIVES AND WHY IT MATTERS". The American Reader. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Cheryl Strayed, Brian Doyle, Vanessa Veselka and Kevin Sampsell". Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Kerr, Euan. "Vanessa Veselka's Strange Route to Literary Stardom". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ " ""Vanessa Veselka. These Streets". Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ Barton, Randall. "Reed Magazine: Road Warrior". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Miller, Dave. "Vanessa Veselka's "Zazen"". Retrieved 7 October 2013.
- ^ "Starting Monday, Oct. 26, Arthur serializes ZAZEN, a novel by Vanessa Veselka". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ "Zazen. Red Lemonade". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Cleland, Lance. "From the Vault: Vanessa Veselka". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Heacock, Kait. "Fiction is a Radical and Private Freedom: Fearless Female Writers". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Baker, Jeff. "Portland Writer Vanessa Veselka Wins $25,000 Pen/Robert Bingham Prize". Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Mowe, Sam. "An interview with Vanessa Veselka". Tricycle. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Mowe, Sam. "The Transience of Identity: The Rumpus Interview with Vanessa Veselka". The Rumpus. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ Seley, Melissa. "No Escape, Melissa Seley interviews Vanessa Veselka". Guernica. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
Category:American writers Category:MacDowell Colony fellows Category:1969 births Category:Living people