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Joan MacDonald

Post #695 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Mr. Pinkwater:

I very much enjoyed the penguin poems you read with Scott Simon on the last Weekend Edition. I could not remember the author’s name, and wondered if you would be so kind as to provide it for me? Thanks for making a trip to a cross-town soccer game a treat.

Daniel replies:

It's ""Antarctic Antics,"" by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey, and published by Harcourt Brace.
The other book we talked about was ""Insectlopedia,"" by Douglas Florian, also by Harcourt Brace.


Zan Joanne & Tom

Post #619 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

In May of 1947 question number 13. on the Freshman English exam at Brooklyn Preparatory School was:

TRUE OR FALSE Nov schmoz ka pop

All of us who were faithful fans of SMOKEY STOVER in the Sunday Journal-American knew the correct answer.

Thanks and warm affection from us to you for the happiness you have brought into our lives. Our eight-year-old daughter has made your books required daily reading for the past couple of years since fat men from space came into her thentofore innocent life.

Daniel replies:

It was Smokey Stover? Not Popeye? I'm sure you're right--but whence comes my mental image of a short, white-bearded little character holding a sign, which I recall in a more Popeyeish style, not a Stoverish one? Whoever drew him, he was an ancestor or Mr. Natural, and Norb, (not to mention some of the muzhiks in Alexander Nevsky).


Sandra Allison

Post #703 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Daniel,

I seem to be missing Chaptern 35 and 37 from your most ebtertaining book. Is my server on the blink or are the gaps intentional?

Daniel replies:

It may be that the chapters aren't listed on the main Afterlife Diet page, but you can get to them by clicking ""next"" at the end of each chapter. Last time I tried, I couldn't get to the book at all. Take it up with management at Fatso.com--I don't know anything about it.


Sandra Allison

Post #693 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

My Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I may call you me dear, may I not? I have been reading you book, The afterlife Diet, and can barely wait for Chapter 35 to appear. It’s sort of magical giggles online.

Please rush further installments, am especially interested in the Pinkwadder and his craft. Although I do find Milton quite attractive.

Daniel replies:

It is for me to call you dear, dear reader.


nfronk

Post #637 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Where can I find how many books by you are in the new york public library?

Daniel replies:

Is the NYPL refusing to disclose how many books of mine they have _again_? I understand it must be embarrassing for them, but if they have them, they ought to come right out and admit it. I am against secretiveness on the part of libraries. They have a responsibility to the public, and ought not to be delicate about things like this.


Joanne Lig.

Post #621 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

Your web site was the first I looked up! I enjoy your work and use many of your stories in my 6th grade class. Guys From Space always helps them remember what diffusion is!

I enjoy listening to you on NPR – the Jimmy Dirante song is quite catching. Is it available on a CD? I think I’d play it at the start of my language arts classes. If you’d let me know I’d appreciate it.

Daniel replies:

I'm told that Weekend Edition wesat@npr.org gets as many inquiries about the Durante song as about the books we discuss. I assume it's available somewhere. NPR is so great with finding music that all I had to do was mention it, and they found it!


Karen Chauss

Post #529 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Mr. Pinkwater:

My husband and I don’t have any dogs right now. But we are planning to get some. We’d like to name them as follows:

  • Elvis
  • Jesus
  • Kevin Shapiro

Would this offend you? Do you think it would offend anyone? How come?

Daniel replies:

I'm not sure it's a good idea to get three dogs all at once. It would be three against two. My dogs are named Jacques-Amo- Pooch-Cini, Maxine and Lulu. Each is offensive in its way.


Kalme

Post #544 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Our family has been reading your books for many years. We have kids ages 13, 10 and two 5 year old twins. My husband and I have always read and enjoyed the books more that the kids and we are always pushing your books on the kids during read aloud story times. The book we keep checking out of the library is “Author’s Day”. We find that book hysterical. Over the years we have read many others but looking at these web pages we may have missed one. Congratulations.

Daniel replies:

I'm delighted your family enjoys my books. I like Author's Day myself. Out of print, I think. Children's books have a rather short life, and it takes a lot to get them republished. Thanks.


Alan Gallauresi

Post #715 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Mr. Pinkwater,

I love your books! I’ve been reading them since I was 10 and now that I am partially grown (22) I appreciate them even more. Please keep on writing novels for young adults– the drought since Borgel was hard on me and I swear that you’ve got one more sequel for the Snarkout Boys in you somewhere.

Anyway, I’ve just got “The Education of Robert Nifkin” from my Amazon.com pre- order, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. Now, the back cover mentions you went to high school in Chicago, and knowing your enjoyment of b-movies from your novels, I wonder whether you’ve ever attended the annual 24 hour bad movie festival at Northwestern University? We basically create a ruckus, throwing around paper plates and riffing on the horrible films. When I read the descriptions of people in your books, I can’t help but think that we B-Fest attendees are your sort of people. I’d love to see you there — what an honor!

Daniel replies:

I'm delighted amazon.com is shipping ""The Education of Robert Nifkin."" The suitably low-paid and outstandingly incompetent people at Farrar Straus and Giroux have yet to send me a single bound copy. I have to mention that this company leads the pack in arrogance, insolence, and stupidity. They managed to produce two books I'm proud of, but if it meant dealing with them again, I'd certainly quit writing.
In my day in Chicago, there was no need of a bad film festival. We had the Clark Theater, (prototype for the Snark).


Lindsay Camp

Post #546 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Mr. Pinkwater,

I just wanted you to know I have almost run my car into ditches several times due to laughing my head off after one of your ATC commentaries. I do not have an e-mail address (haven’t come out of the dark ages yet apparently) and am only able to send this to you via the computers at the college I am attending for summer graduate school. BLAH!!! Thank you for the light and laughter! How is your dog? My husband and I are curious because we have a huge pound puppy which much resembles the one you described on ATC which puked during a car ride. Let us know. We will be checking this page until the summer runs out and possibly sometimes after. Thanks!

Daniel replies:

If you click on the Car Talk link provided here, they may still have the conversation about canine mobile eructation from last summer. (I would never discuss something like that on ATC). For people like you who are apt to drive into ditches, some modern cars have a humor sensor which automatically switches to a station which carries Rush Limbaugh when I come on.


Ian Stoba

Post #502 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

In the next week I will be taking a very long airplane flight (14 hours in each direction). Do you have any recommendations for something to read on a flight that long? I realize this would be a perfect time to plug _5 Novels_, but I read that on my last trip (and loved it!).

Daniel replies:

Ian Stoba - Not knowing what else you've read, I'm at a loss. Also, since I never fly on airplanes, I can't even share what I read last time. I feel like such a failure. Why don't people ask me easier questions?


Ian Stoba

Post #495 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Another of life’s small mysteries falls by the wayside….

With the picture of the birthmark on your hand gracing the cover of Five Novels we now know where the name Manus came from, eh?

–Ian Stoba

P.S. Had it been up to me, my son would have been named Vercinjetarix.

Daniel replies:

Ian Stoba -- Lucky it wasn't, huh?


Luke Petschauer

Post #580 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Mr. Pinkwater:

This coming year of my life will be spent in Puebla, Mexico (right by the erupting volcano Popocatepetel, something that thrills my parents) as an exchange student. Have either of your Snarkout Boys books been published in Spanish? Since I can not get my hands on a copy of either book printed in English (something I regret, as I would like to take them with me for use as “pick-me-ups” in the event of homesickness/melancholy moods), I thought it would be amusing to purchase copies in Spanish while in Mexico. Have any of your other books been published in Spanish?

Daniel replies:

I think the only book of mine publihed in Spanish is a limited edition of The Big Orange Splot, published in a whole bunch of languages in the Netherlands. I think Aileron has responded to you vis-a-vis hard-to-get copies of my work. I am willing to sell a few rare copies from my personal stash, for prices slightly more attractive than those asked by some dealers, (over $100!), but the economical move is to order _Daniel Pinkwater, 5 Novels_ at $10.95, and discounted, I believe, by the likes of Amazon--see the section on this site. It's got _Alan Mendelsohn_, _Slaves of Spiegel_, _The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death_, _The Last Guru_, and _Young Adult Novel_. If you're going to live near a volcano, I suggest _The Worms of Kukumlima_, but it's not in this collection. Maybe the next one, if the publisher makes money on the first.


Ian Stoba

Post #615 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Hi there,

Last week I went to Walter Cronkite’s book signing. Now, I was a major Cronkite fan as a kid. My brother and I always played evening news and fought over who got to be Cronkite and who had to be Roger Mudd. When I turned 3 the only person in the world I wanted to come to my birthday was Walter Cronkite. He sent me a nice card, but didn’t make it to the party. I have not celebrated my birthday since. No kidding.

So, anyway, it was a big thing for me to meet him. Everyone else there had shelled out $35 for his memoirs. I brought a copy of Lizard Music to give to him. He was a little startled to be getting a book at a book signing, but he quickly recovered. After all, he _is_ Walter Cronkite. Anyhow, I hope he enjoys the book.

Do you [know] if he has read Lizard Music, or if he is aware of the book? He didn’t seem to recognize it when I gave it to him.

Daniel replies:

I think Roger Mudd had some comment on the book. I don't know if Walter ever did. But I did have an 8 x 10 of him in my office in Hoboken. This reminds me. I mean to ask for a picture of Robert Siegel, to glue to my left speaker.


Louis N. Nettlehorst

Post #577 – 19970101

January 1, 1997

Dear Mr. Pinkwater, it is a thrill to talk to a real author. My two typing fingers are shaking. Can you e-mail me the meaning of life? Yours truely, Louis B. Nettlehorst

Daniel replies:

I suppose it is a thrill to talk to a real author. I apologize on behalf of Ed that he was unable to get one, and has to make do with me. However, you are in luck, as I am able to explain the meaning of life, having read it on a Fleer's Double Bubble Bubble Gum wrapper I found in the playground of an elementary school curiously called Nettlehorst, (as you are! A remarkable coincidence!) Life, the vital power, the animating force, that which gives us consciousness and free-will, exists in order for us, and all other beings to reject bagels with chocolate chips, zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes, and other abominations, in favor of the True Bagels, (plain, poppy, sesame, onion, garlic, bialys, and NOT raisin). In so doing we affirm the Good, and give praise to the Creator. This is why we live and exist. Those who affirm the other bagels are apostates and will be cast down. I hope this has been of some help to you.


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