Many years ago - college long ago - I had a friend who had an "upstairs grandma" that he had created in his imagination, upstairs in that situation coMany years ago - college long ago - I had a friend who had an "upstairs grandma" that he had created in his imagination, upstairs in that situation coming to mean imaginary and often then applied to may other things. We joked about "upstairs cars" and "upstairs vacations" and many other out-of-reach things that we could IMAGINE but not attain. The Upstairs Delicatessen is a reference to a term coined by Seymour Krim, who used it to refer to his memory/memories. And that is how I decided to read this book by Dwight Garner. Turns out that I enjoyed it quite a bit - his recollections of “eating, reading, reading about eating, and eating while reading!” were generally engaging, though I occasionally was put off by the constant references to other readers, writers, and eaters that peppered the pages . 3.75 and rounding up....more
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