In this video, Krys Malcolm Belc talks about his memoir What I Made for Dinner (Catapult, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, for an event at Books Are Magic with Joseph Osmundson. “I used to dream of a better world and now I’m dreaming of projects, loaves of bread, layer cakes, laminated pastries.”
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