Our third “Pandemic Edition” features an interview with Ben Hall (the subject of Essay’d Installment #36) on food (in)security and the current moment.  Ben is uniquely qualified to talk on this subject. In addition to being a widely exhibited artist and improvising musician, he is also a long-time chef/restauranteur/food activist in the city. As a chef, Hall produced the first “fully integrated, serially repeated, chef-driven …

Our second “Pandemic Edition” features the following thought-provoking comments on the current crisis from artist Gracie Xavier. Gracie is also the subject of a wonderful article by Kristin Palm, which can be found on the Essay’d Website. We hope that you enjoy both the essay and Gracie’s thoughts. Detroit Cultural Crisis Survey – Gracie XavierSent by e-mail on April 5 1. How has …

Essay’d has always played the long game. We publish a relatively small number of articles per year, and we hope that the writing will still hold up in five, or even ten, years time. But that cadence didn’t seem to fit the speed of the current crisis, so we’ve changed a couple of things. First, we’ve accelerated the publishing schedule – …