Happy Birthday! Thank you for all the good stuff. I heard life starts again at 70, so i’m hoping we will we be seeing more Snarkout Boys stories soon!
Starts again? I wasn't aware it had stopped, and where did you get the idea I am 70? I am 19 years old and in poor health.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Captain Pinkwater!!!
The best author in all known (and lesser known) dimensions deserves a wonderful day, and a really good corn muffin!!!
Thank you for sharing your stories,(and art) they bring more happiness than you know!!!
I get a fair amount of happiness back. My muffin awaits me.
Mr. P, What do you enjoy reading?
Thank you,
Kevin
I enjoy reading posts and emails from you, Kevin. They're sweet as sugar and light as a feather.
Dear Daniel Pinkwater,
We have read a lot of your books but we have not read all of them yet. We think the books that we have read are really good. When we were reading Hoboken Chicken Emergency we became really excited when we read about Dr. Hsu because our last name is Hsu. We finished the book and we really liked it.
We also like the Irving and Muktuk books, the Wuggie Norple Story and the Phantom Lunch Wagon. Thanks for writing such great books.
Oliver Hsu (5 years old)
Thanks to YOU! Without good readers like you there would be no point in writing books. I am glad you liked the ones you have read so far. Did anyone ever mention to you the old saying ""If the Hsu fits, wear it?""
Spats! Spats! Howzabout that?
Personally, I seldom get dressed up these days--but wear 'em if you want to.
Mr. Pinkwater,
I just finished reading the book “Absurdistan”, by Gary Shteyngart, which i enjoyed. I can see shared language and themes with some of your books, and i imagine that you’d enjoy reading it too.
Enjoying writing something and enjoying reading something can be two different somethings.
I recently drew the short straw and will soon take over the Fliegende Hollander job. I’ll be making endless trips between Hoboken and Barclay Street on a ghostly version of the _Elizabeth_, never touching land on either side. Oh, I deserve it for the things I’ve done. They tell me I can take only five books and three long-playing records with me.
And so I ask you, Mr. Pinkwater – any suggestions?
I suggest the five-volume set, Verw
I laughed loud at the mention of Republican candidates on the October 23 podcast (Books of the Weird). How prescient that was!
Well, obviously the book was written long before the current, and may I add stellar, slate of individuals seeking nomination. Possibly I was thinking of some other outstanding, and may I add not second-rate, office-seekers. We are fortunate in this country to have public-spirited and sincere rich people who are willing to allow us to vote for them.
Daniel Pinkwater!
YEARS ago – way before podcasts, I heard you tell an extremely amusing story called “Jill and the Wolf” which was about your wife Jill and her relationship with a wolf that was a backyard visitor to your house. Is there ANYWHERE I can find that recording – I would love to hear it again and play it for my daughter.
Thank you for all the entertainment you have provided throughout the years.
LynnAnn Weed
Possibly the story, or something like it, is in Uncle Boris in the Yukon, (in print for a change!), and in the audio archives on this very website.
There are some wolf tales here and here. --Ed.
Hello, DP —
Perhaps you know this already, but I was very happy to discover that The Big Orange Splot turns up in a three-part video called The Writing Code, produced in 2007. Here’s the national library catalog record: www.worldcat.org/oclc/225862377. In the third part of the video, students at a one-room schoolhouse in Vermont are shown reading from a book, and the name Plumbean jumped out at me. They’re reading The Big Orange Splot! It’s not the picture book version, but a mostly-text, less-illustrated version in some kind of anthology/textbook.
I imagine I granted them permission to use it for a fast buck. I am not proud of this, but it is something one does. I don't have a regular job, you know.
Dear Mr Pinkwater
I have always wanted to tell you that when I was in 3rd grade I was not very interested in reading until I picked up the book you wrote Lizard Music. I had a pet lizard at the time so it caught my eye. After I read your book I became very interested in reading and have been a voracious reader ever since. Thank you for inspiring my lifelong love of reading!
Gwen
This is the best compliment a writer like me can possibly get. I can't resist saying I get it fairly regularly. Still, it feels wonderful--thanks for telling me.
I have admired your work and always enjoy hearing you on NPR. Recently after 40 years a group of us who worked in a laboratory at MIT administered by Penny Chase got together, and we were discussing Penny. I believe she told me she had once studied the harpsichord with you. Is this the case?
Thank you.
Mark Lurie
Obviously, it would be ungentlemanly in the extreme were I to contradict something Penny Chase told you.
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
Of course I love your books…but the pressing question remains…Can we just hang out sipping toddies this winter? Let me know.
Thanks!
Coreen
Are you offering to provide the thermos and the styrofoam cups?
I was reading this morning Roald Dahl’s story on how he became a writer, “Lucky Break,” and I started thinking of all the questions I wanted to ask him. This reminded me of how remarkable it is that you give use the opportunity to pose questions to you online here. I can’t think of any burning questions right now, but I am very grateful for the fact that you have this forum for when I do. I wish more great writers would.
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Hello Sir Daniel of Pinkwater,
My name is Jocelyn. You may remember me from years old appearances in this forum, such as my past-self’s message regarding the usage of my invented word, “TONICAL,” as well as one regarding a project for my seventh grade French class. If you don’t remember me, then I don’t really mind. I know several other people who remember me; my remembrance requirement is quite fulfilled.
Yeah, so before I left for college this summer I reread Alan Mendelsohn, and Avacado of Death. All I can say is … WOAH NOSTALGIA. Your books are still hilarious reads. No one, except perhaps my fellow siblings who also grew up reading them, understands the the true beauty of your bizarre texts. Thank you for existing.
Alright that about wraps things up for now. I got to go write a speech about aliens then learn how to draw all the shoes. All of them.
Thank YOU for existing! What good is it, being a super-author and creative genius without equally super genius readers to make use of one's product? Good luck at college to your present and future-selves.
