October 2013 saw the publication of NIETZSCHE’S ANGEL FOOD CAKE: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished. Many of the “recipes” first appeared in McSWEENEY’S INTERNET TENDENCY, THE RUMPUS, THE REVOLVING FLOOR, and other literary and humor journals. An album of fully-orchestrated readings of “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese,” “Anais Nin’s Hot Cross Buns,” “James Joyce’s Spotted Dick,” “Dorothy’s Parker House Rolls,” and other scrumptious delights will also be avaiilable for purchase from iTunes.
Coffey is a humorist, but she is also an award-winning novelist and science and psychology journalist. HYSTERICAL: Anna Freud’s Story (She Writes Press, 2014) was named a 2015 Over the Rainbow Book by the American Library Association and received rave reviews from BOOKLIST and LAMBDA LITERARY. UNSPEAKABLE TRUTHS AND HAPPY ENDINGS, her full-length book about psychological trauma, won an Outstanding Academic Book award from the American Library Association’s CHOICE magazine. Her documentaries have been broadcast nationally and featured on OPRAH! She contributes regularly to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN and DISCOVER magazines and blogs for PSYCHOLOGYTODAY.COM, and she can be heard on Vermont Public Radio as a broadcast commentator.
More information is at RebeccaCoffey.com.