Can you tell me what the words are for the Jimmy Durante song Daniel uses on his “Weekend Edition” book review? I would like to use it next year in my school…..
Thanks!
If you email wesat@npr.org, they can direct you to the CD with the song. Or, you could just do a google search on ""I'll never forget the day I read a book,"" and see if lyrics come up--but I think you need the actual voice of the Great Durante to put it over.
If you are interested in making some of your hard-to-finds available online you might want to check out nospine.com if you haven’t heard about it already. You submit books in RTF (Word) or PDF files and people pay to download them. You get 80%. You could even do books with illustrations using the PDF format I’m pretty sure. It would take some work getting the books ready for this type of publication, but you could get somebody else to do that. Maybe even me.
-Christel (again)
I already have something going with Xlibris. Is this similar?
Mr. P.
I am a fan visiting a friend and using her computer. I have tried to find away to phrase this so that it would be appropriate for all ages and I can not. So I will be blunt. I lost some friends in the WTC and a friend of mine at the Pentagon was seriously hurt. You are a handsome man, and a quasi-sage. You are also a man who finds humor in most everything. Here is my question. How in the Blue Hell can I or anyone in America ever laugh again. I just came out of an 8 and a half month funk during which I read every book you have written including a rare edition of Java Jack and Fat Elliot an d the Gorilla. Help me friend, if anyone can. Tell me how I can ever find laughter again?
Sign me
The voice of America
You will. Healing takes time. You can't speed it up--just take it easy. Eight-and-a-half months is about right for a funk.
I am so excited that I took the time to look DP up on the internet. Mr.Pinkwater I must tell you that Fishwhistle is the most fun I have ever had reading a book, I laughed so hard I was crying….I read the part about the little played out green chili’s and your near death experience to anyone that would hold still long enough to listen, It is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. You have brought so much happiness and laughter to my life I cannot thank you enough. I can’t close without mentioning “The Snarkout Boys and The Avacado of Death”, I don’t care if it’s a kids book…….I loved it and I think you are the very best
Well! Reading that sort of set me up for the rest of the day. Thanks.
HI
SO GLAD TO BE ON THIS SITE. CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where and when were you planning to hear me? Am I expected somewhere I forgot about?
Dearest Daniel~
Per your advice, I managed to hold my own in Advanced English 10 this year, and have you to thank for that. I was the bothersome girl who asked for advice on how to be a writer. No need for the motivational spiel, it worked already. I have received so much extra credit thanks to you that I should have weighted English classes for the rest of high school. I noticed in none of your books to freshman receive unkind treatment, because you never really distinguish. Well, I just became a sophomore today, and will now be able to torment the unlucky freshman; something I never got to relish in while reading your books. You have been and inspiration, and upon recently visiting New York, and New Jersey, (for the first time ever) I suddenly see the secret appeal you capture in your books. However, I have to ask, what gave you the inspiration for Beanbender’s Beer Garden in Lower North Aufzoo St? it is so subtly delightful, and is my favorite mental image. I have you to thank for everything. It is your own fault this is so long, you gave me the will to write.
Eternally Grateful (and jabbering…)
Enid Cloyed
There were beer gardens like that in leafy and quiet Chicago neighborhoods. I expect they are townhouses and condos now.
hi daniel,
i’ve been searching for the casio twin-graph AE-20W watch for the past 9 years & finally found details about the same in ur website.
do u still have that watch or have u sold it 2 tony??
do reply back in ur free time.
😀
If all the people who want Casio Twingraph AE-20W watches would band together in brotherhood, we would have world peace.
hello this is a 5th grader and i chose u 4 my project i have a ? how did u start writing get back 2 me as soon as possible like 2morow please
Sincerely,the blue moose lol
I started writing in 5th Grade, as a matter of fact. There was a school-wide fiction contest, with real prizes. I wrote a story and won in the Junior Division. This was when I realized you could get things by writing. It is a lesson I have never forgotten.
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
I recently sent you a postcard, which resulted in your sending me this e-mail address. First, I want to thank you for resonding to my query; it’s very gracious of you considering I’m a total stranger. Anyway, by way of brief introduction, I am a high school teacher in Fairmont, WV. I taught theatre for many years, and have written a few short plays. I really like your books; my wife introduced them to me, and now that I have children, I get to read some of them all over again. I especially like Lizard Music.
Which brings me to the question I referred to in my postcard: I know that there is a film version of the Hoboken Chicken Experiment, and a stage version of Lizard Music, but has there ever been a film treatment of Lizard Music? I think it would be a great movie, a natural for a young audience. It’s got a great premise, and the visual elements would be really terrific. How do you feel about this idea? Has anyone ever approached you about such a thing? What would be your response?
I would appreciate any response, though I don’t deserve it, seeing as how I’ve intruded upon your private life. Thanks for your work!
Xavier A. Garcia
To tell the truth, I'm not terribly intrested in movies or TV adaptations of my stuff. I let some activity go on for purposes of possibly enhancing my income. I have an agent who entertains offers from established Hollywood entities, (and they are entities). If you have money, you can play. I don't even want to hear about it.
my friends and I were very impressed by the ideas in your young adult novel. we decided to produce a conspiracy. we printed up 500 business cards with thin blue circles on them. we were also going to draw lots of blue circles on the ground of our high school with chalk, but they couldn’t be seen unless you were standing on top of them, so we didn’t. we (me and about four other people) started distributing the business cards around the campus: first in the bathrooms, in little piles; then in windows; then on door handles and poles. after a few days we found evidence of them being noticed because of smiley or angry faces drawn in some of them.
after a few days two of my compatriots brashly put up some cards in front of some administrators, who (luckily) only reprimanded them and told them to stop. it was fun while it lasted. thank you very much for the idea, and for making school bearable for a few weeks. we also love your books.
There are _ideas_ in a book of mine? This is the first I've heard. I'll have to check into this.
Dear D. Manus P.,
We have moved into the new monastery buildings and are ready to receive guests. We would like to invite you and Mrs. DMP to visit us at Great Vow Zen Monastery any time you are able. We would be delighted, honored and surprised if you came to Clatskanie. We will have a “float” (read pickup truck with red, white and blue bunting and some of us playing marimba in the back) in the Fourth of July parade in town, followed by the third annual Pan Buddhist picnic. nO Buddhists in the pan, but hot tofu pups and garden burgers on the barbeque —- how can you resist?
Hoping,
Jan Chozen Bays
Actually, I can resist. But, if someone can take a digital picture of the zen marimbistas on the pickup truck, I'm sure Ed will post it, and I'd love to see it. Have an enlightened Fourth!
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
My 9 year old son has finally discovered someone who writes books that are not “boring” or “stupid.” It seems the libraries are stuffed with reading material that can only be described with those two adjectives, as far as he’s concerned. But “Blue Moose” and “Fat Men from Outer Space” have brought us reading time that is not punctuated with “how much longer???” every five minutes. Tonight he actually pleaded to stay up late to finish a chapter.
To see him so delighted with stories he can read himself is a great pleasure, and I offer you my heartfelt thanks for writing them.
Gratefully yours,
Sue & Nathan – new fans
Congratulations! Your son has good taste.
Dear Mister Pinkwater.
I’m not four hundred pounds, but I’m closer to 250 and 6’7″ of tall silliness. From what I gather you’re a shorter heavier version of brilliance. I wanted you to know your stories were good for a laugh at just the right time – my Mom thought you were pretty funny too (she’s the real critic!).
I’ve got a pretty popular site (last time I checked my counter I nailing about 8000 hits a month – heck the site is more popular than me – that just ain’t right!) of music / book reviews and short stories (shameless plug – Hubris run amok?). I’ve taken the liberty of posting a very gushing review of 5 Novels which I thought you might like to see – as opposed to a drop dead and go away review. www.banophernalia.com/reviews/books/authors_p.htm
Jevon the Tall
“Who Knows What Silliness Lurks in the Hearts of Men.”
Going to look at it right now.
Dear Mr.Pinkwater,
Ever since I can remember I have loved your books.
At the present time I am 11 years old, and have read so many of your books that it is hard to keep track of them all. You are definitely my favorite author.
Earlier this year, my school did a mural on books and reading. I chose Spaceburger, and drew a picture of the android at the restaurant. Spaceburger and Fat Men from Space are probably my favorite books of yours.
I hope you keep on writing until you can write no more. Thank you very much and always a fan.
Thank you again,
Dena Weiss
Here is someone who has read many of my books, and yet is capable of crafting very nice sentences. I _will_ keep writing until I can write no more--and it is not just the millions of dollars, and the society of famous athletes and rock stars that motivate me...it is that I have the coolest readers on the planet, one of whom is Dena Weiss.
I would like the Pinkwaters to know that I just recently discovered their wonderful books. I found a book at my local library for my two grandsons, 5 & 7, and I just had to go back for more.
I’m spreading the gospel and the silliness of their books to all the people I come across with children.
Although I claim to have gotten the books for my grandchildren I really enjoy them myself. Looking forward to reading more.
Thanks for the entertainment.
Just to let them know, I have also purchased three of their books.
Mr. Ethington, you are a man to be emulated--by thousands.
