What I Read This Week
Alice Feiring is not only a well-respected wine journalist. When she professes her love for a wine she becomes a poet. Her latest work — To Fall in Love Drink This — is a memoir that let me see the world through the eyes of one of my favorite writers. It’s filled with thrilling stories, heart-fluttering romances, travels, and of course, wine.
Alice does underplay her role in bringing natural wine to center stage over a few decades so if you aren’t paying close attention you may miss just how instrumental she was in the movement, but works like this are a great reminder that rarely is there an overnight success.
Imagine being one of the greatest musical acts ever and still facing doubt, criticism, and large-scale slights. Welcome to life as a Black woman.
This NY Times Article (my gift to you) touches on her fans’ willingness to travel, which just underscores her impact. It’s a quick read and completely unrelated to my issue, which is that marginalized people will always have to exceed, oftentimes beyond the reach of what is humanly feasible, to be seen equally.
Here’s an adaptaion of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None written by Black woman. I can’t tell you whether or not this was a successful interpretation because I’m only about halfway done but it’s worth mentioning that if you were waiting on a sign to read more authors of color, wait no more.