Jocelyn Schramer

March 21, 2006

Salutations!!! My 7th grade french class has to make up an interveiw for a famous person. So I need to make up an interveiw, and present it in class. My friend is going to play you *HA HA*. Here are questions I need to ask (please respond in English):

1. What is your favorite color? (Qu’est-ce que couluer tu prefere?)
2. How well do you sing (Comment est-ce que tu chantes?)
3. What is your favorite food? (Qu’est-ce que tu veux manger?)
4. Where do you live?–city, state. (Ou est-ce que tu habites?)

   I thought it’s be cool if I got answers from the real Daniel Pinkwater. Thanks!

Ellen Skagerberg

March 18, 2006

I wrote a book review of “The Artsy Smartsy Club” for amazon.com and did a little web research first. To my horror, I found NO entry in Wikipedia for “screever,” and dang little information elsewhere either (such as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary).

By the great black broom of Dick Van Dyke, how can this be??

So … I know you’re busy, and I also hope you’re writing more YA novels a la “The Artsy-Smartsy Club” & “Young Adult Novel,” but I wonder if you or one of your agents couldn’t draft something on screeving for Wikipedia. The Internet depends on us all, and this is a VERY SERIOUS omission.

Your pal,

Ellen Skagerberg

Nathan Rounds

March 17, 2006

Hello, Mr. Pinkwater. I interviewed you for a newspaper article (a Prince Edward Island, Canada daily) in ’91. I was wondering if you have seen and/or heard the Trachtenberg family slideshow players because they are quite “Pinkwaterish” by design. Did you design them…?

D.R.

March 13, 2006

Are you going to be writing a sequel to Lizard Music? I thought LM was great, so I searched the forums and the last entry I found about a sequel was in May of 2000, which wasn’t the most recent time.

Biggs Bruno

March 12, 2006

i just want to know if you will be writing a third snarkout boys book. They are the greatest books ever written and I would be overjoyed to find out that you will write another one. a movie should also be made of the books. thank you

Laird Carlson

March 11, 2006

I publish the Cell Door Magazine (celldoor.com)which is written for the most part by inmates or ex-cons. Gwen Seale, who is incarcerated in GA, wrote a lovely children’s story with illustrations about a girl who is the daughter of an incarcerated woman. AMY HAD A SECRET You can view the book on the WEB at: lairdcarlson.com/celldoor/00502/NBSeale00502AmyHadASecret.htm,

or I could send you a printed copy. I think it would be a good subject for your children’s book review on NPR and you also may help get it into the female prison around the country.

Keith Baldwin

March 7, 2006

So there’s this theater in my hometown, they do dramatic stuff on the weekends, but nothing the rest of the week. I’m trying to drum up support for them to start showing old movies. They said they’re interested and they have the equipment, but they need money for copyrights and such.

I started a donation drive, and got some interest, but most people figured they could just rent any old movies they feel like seeing. This is silly because they don’t know a lot of the movies, can’t get a lot of the movies at blockbuster, and would be missing out on the whole silver-screen element.

Meanwhile, I haven’t heard from the theater since they found out I wasn’t one of my uncles (bunch of rich guys). What should I do? Should I give up and just buy some Laurel and Hardy DVDs? Would it be the same?

David Drain

March 4, 2006

It seems Mr P once collaborated with someone named Chad Henry. It might be an old friend of mine [alaska, army, 67, 68]

Then again it might not.

David Drain

Sassafrass Harps

Marvin Gator

February 23, 2006

I was browsing through the Talk to DP Foum Archive, and someone mentioned you giving him a copy of Tristram Shandy a long time ago. I just wanted to let you know that someone’s actually gone ahead and made a film out of Tristram Shandy. Appropriately, the film is about the making of a film based on Tristram Shandy. It was pretty funny.

Jim Speer

February 20, 2006

We have become great fans of DP’s books through reading tem to our boys. I will be buying “The Afterlife Diet” for my wife’s upcoming birthday, and I wonder if there are any more titles recommended for adults? If so or oterwise, I would be pleased for guidence! Thank you.

Steven J DeYoung

February 20, 2006

As a youth, were you an avid listener of any of the radio shows coming out of Chicago? {Little Orphan Annie, Captain Midnight, etc.}

Keith Baldwin

February 17, 2006

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

Have you ever been to Iowa City? It’s a great writing town, full of weird characters (many of which are relatives of mine), and home to the University of Iowa. It is unfortunately chocked full of snobby kids from chicago suburbs who are just there for the school and tend to dislike the town. Quoth cousin Ben: “If you throw a stone, you’re bound to hit someone from a Chicago suburb. Please, throw it hard.” Anyway, it’s also home to the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio, a great camp which I attended last year, and with any will attend again this year. The only doubt lies with some trouble I’ve been having with the character in my writing sample. He’s coming off as too much of an adult (which is weird considering he isn’t much younger than myself). Do you have any advice for writing younger characters?

P.S. Iowa City is also home to the greatest toy store in the world, the Fun Zone (which features such classics as Sigmund Freud action figures [if your lucky you’ll find a faulty one with a flesh colered cigar]), whose owner is one of the few Pinkwater fans I know who aren’t my own converts, and whose sister recieved from you a full set of your books (signed I believe). She also got an interview with Salinger after 25 years of silence (I think I know which I’m more envious of).

Vicki Anderson

February 16, 2006

Thanks! I just listened to Scott Simon and you reading ‘How to Be a Good Dog’ with the help of Lulu. I appreciated you having Lulu there to help read it. Before I listened to Scott, you and Lulu reading of the book, I was reading some very depressing news stories. The three of you lifted my spirits. Thanks for all you do that enriches the lives of many.

Sarah

February 15, 2006

Lulu is very cool. Why isn’t she on the radio more?

How is Moby?

Random Tonical Being

February 14, 2006

WEIRD IS GOOD…. GOOD IS WEIRD….NORMAL IS BAD.. BAD IS NORMAL…. Do you like lemons?