Winning the Bread: A Conversation with Meg Thompson
A new "Atticus on Air" Podcast, Episode 3 with the author of The Bread Winner
I love bread. Also, I observe a mostly gluten-free diet. This is not the dilemma it used to be. GF bread has come a long way, but nothing beats a good gluten-filled Ciabatta loaf. Or a French baguette. Or a New York Italian hard-crust bread, or Bastone, with sesame seeds.
And nothing beats a good conversation about writing. Except a good conversation about writing that includes talking about bread.
Too good to be true, you say? Et voilà:
We sat down over Zoom with the author of our latest literary NFT collection, Meg Thompson, to talk about what inspired her to write her memorable essay The Bread Winner.
Topics include:
her process, and the decision to use third person in a personal essay
motherhood
writing as “career”
how to write while also “winning the bread”
do writers (and literary magazines) need a patron spouse to survive?
what could literary NFT marketplaces look like in the future?
how baking bread can settle the obsessive mind
Great Writing, Great Digital Art
“The Bread Winner” is our first NFT featuring original art by illustrator and graphic designer Adriana Quezada. Stay tuned for more on Adriana in our next newsletter!
For now, check out these great illustrations she made for “The Bread Winner:”
Support these Artists!
You can show support for Meg and Adriana by purchasing one of the NFTs from this collection. When you buy an NFT using your crypto wallet, funds go immediately to the wallets of Meg and Adriana and aren’t routed through any corporate third-parties such as Visa or Mastercard or a big bank.
If you’re thinking, but I don’t know how to get a crypto wallet, well, we have tutorials to guide you through that on our website.
To learn more about our new publishing model you can read our past newsletters and our blog.
Thanks for reading!
David Olimpio
Publisher