Short People
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.
Being on Zoom
I was on Zoom when I was ten.
Actually, I was nine when I started. It was the 70s, 4th grade, and one of my mother’s friends told her that Zoom, the TV show, was holding auditions. She thought I might like to try out.
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If Philip Roth had done nothing but edit Penguin’s series of “Writers from the Other Europe,” he would have done right by the world. But other publishers were mining the Eastern Bloc, too. In 1984 Grove published Slawomir Mrozek’s The Elephant. The Spectator blurb on my copy says, “Extraordinary! Something like Kafka’s stories but funnier.”