In Conversation 2
Q: So you work in children’s books? Any books I might have heard of?
M: (uncomfortable shifting) Well, do you have children?
Q: No.
M: Are you, like, married to a children’s librarian?
Q: Um, no.
M: Do you maybe read children’s books for fun?
Q: No.
M: Well, okay then. Nothing you would have heard of.
Whereas we, your fellow residents of the children’s literature world, say “Whales On Stilts. Genius.”
Boni Ashburn
25 December 2008 at 10.20 pm
Aw, thanks! But the genius there is entirely Tobin’s.
mikalroy
26 December 2008 at 1.34 am
don’t be modest. surely his genius is the type that rubs off onto people at least.
chris
19 February 2009 at 12.42 pm
I’m not being modest. I do what I do; he does what he does. Most of the heavy lifting, though, ends up on the author’s shoulders. Just how things parcel out.
But thanks!
mikalroy
22 February 2009 at 12.11 pm