What to Cook This Week

Now, it’s a far cry from juicing limes and shredding carrots, but I don’t want you to miss Howard Fishman’s accounting of a trip to Deer Isle to whisk the ghost of John Steinbeck, which he wrote for The Washington Post Magazine.

If you like your fiction really, really dark, so hard-boiled the yolk’s a gray rubber ball: James Ellroy’s 1984 crime original “Blood on the Moon” may suit.

Mistakes, errors, typos — all our friends. Here’s Ed Simon in The Millions on literature’s history of missteps and bloopers, fascinating to read.

Finally, do read J.J. Goode in The New Yorker on the pitfalls of a recipe-writing platitude: season to taste. Melissa Clark will join you in this space on Monday, and I’ll be back at the end of the week.

Also Read: How to Make Indian Butter Chicken