Or comic books -- the pencil details are completely someone else's problem.
'Potential'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Hey, if Mister Ayelet Waldman can write the next Spiderman movie script? I am damned if I see why our own Ms. K can't collaborate with a drawing type person and craft a whole new comics gestalt.
I mean, I wish to hell somebody would. Someone who is not male, or eighteen, or in love with Laura Croft.
Mister Ayelet Waldman
Heh. I trust you'll be seeing the movie, Deb?
Yes indeedy. Michael Chabon writing it? Oh, you dambetcha.
I'm hoping he comes along with Ayelet at our big Delancey Street group reading in January. Although reading with him in the audience? Yike.
Yes indeedy. Michael Chabon writing it? Oh, you dambetcha.
I wanted to lick Kavalier and Clay.
You wanted to lick the book? Wait til you meet the author.
Hoo boy. Ayelet has taste, she does.
Edit: and Kristen, insent.
You wanted to lick the book? Wait til you meet the author.
I haven't seen him in years. Is he still fragile-looking, painfully reserved and delicately pretty?
Not even remotely, Victor. Except that he's definitely pretty.
And I didn't get "painfully reserved", either. The exchange at the Emerging Voices thing went along these lines:
Me: I think you ought to have two Pulitzer Prizes. Because really, K&K is a better book than Wonder Boys.
Him: Two Pulitzers?
Me: Definitely. Two.
Him: That's what I keep telling them!
All of that while bouncing the infant son. He's a serious, serious charmer.
Man, it's been years. I may have seen him maybe twice since the WB release party, but not terribly long after it.
Maybe the painfully reserved is the wrong phrase, but you know that sense you get off someone that, as friendly and upbeat as they're being, part of them is definitely elsewhere? I got that off him a lot. But then, I get it off a lot of writers.
I do remember him being a nice guy, though. And again, very pretty.
EDIT: Huh. Maybe "distant" is the word.
I just read Reema's copy of K & C. I liked it very much (it made me want to dig out the Steven Millhauser I own).