Just For You: In The Next CulinaryWoman Newsletter

A new collection of Julia Reed's writing

On the marble-topped counter in my bathroom, I have a little glass plate with a saying by Emily Dickinson. It reads, “Why Not Have A Big Life?”

I can’t think of anyone from my generation of writers who lived a bigger life than Julia Reed. She had a flamboyant and exciting career as an author, essayist and journalist for publications such as Garden and Gun, Vogue, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, where we met in the 1980s.

Julia has been likened to Nora Ephron and Dorothy Parker, and she certainly cut a wide swath through the southern literary world. You might have seen her in two episodes of Somebody Feed Phil, introducing Phil Rosenthal to restaurants in New Orleans and her home town of Greenville in the Mississippi Delta.