If you could have lunch with an author living or dead, who would you choose? Why? What would you ask them?
I realize there are people who are totally inaccessible to their fans. After giving this careful consideration, I thought Maurice Sendak would be interesting to talk to. Not about his illustrations, or his writing.
“Did your faith to influence your work? What are some important things that you would want people to know about you? What do you view as the most important aspects of your career as writer/illustrator?”
Then I remember reading Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion and The Year of Magical Thinking. Her words reach right into my heart and make themselves at home. And after I set the book down, the words swim around in my head like a school of fish.
I found myself thinking about her stories and her life and the smooth molasses way she poured them out. I kept going back to them again and again... For weeks I pondered her life without her writer husband John. I found myself worrying about her.
“How are you doing now, Joan? What are you working on?”
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