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Kate Lebo is the author of the cookbook, Pie School and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers . She's also the coeditor with Samuel
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April 13, 2021 11:15 AM Connor Sarles
SPOKANE, Wash. It’s been a long year in the pandemic, but it’s finally time to ‘Get Lit!’ The Get Lit! Festival is being held virtually from April 12–18.
The ‘Get Lit! Festival’ is Washington’s longest running annual literary festival, and on a typical year is packed with readings, writing workshops, craft classes, poetry slams, panels, literary happy hours and more.
The festival is housed in Eastern Washington University and has been running for 23 years except for 2020, which had to be canceled for reasons you already know!
This year’s festival is being held all online and features headlining authors Jess Walter, Esi Edugyan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robin Wall Kimmerer and many more.
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The Book of Difficult Fruit, author Kate Lebo regularly references the Doctrine of Signatures, ancient theory found in multiple cultures that one can glean the medicinal properties of plants by the part of the body they resemble. God made it easy for us, the theory goes, and made flowers that look like eyes to treat eye infections, plants with red extracts for the blood, and womb-shaped fruit for birth. It’s pseudoscience of the highest order, but the point is not whether it works, but what it means that this logic held sway for so long. It’s not that fruit cures liver disease. It’s that fruit is so integral to our lives that we obviously give it meaning.
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t s a testament to Kate Lebo s curiosity, knowledge and sheer writing chops that she can spend a chapter describing something as tasting like peaches laced with onions and garbage and smelling a little like turpentine and you ll want to merrily try some for yourself laughing all the way. Of course, you probably won t get the 38-year-old Lebo to join for another round of the spikey fruit called a durian, grown primarily in Southeast Asia and only found through some digging through Spokane s Asian grocery stores. The author of
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes), arriving in stores April 6, readily admits she threw out most of hers, having tried just five bites before she started to feel ill. Some people