Sublime

boxes in the States: Tastee

Then Michael wrote Cooked, and his agent—this was Binky Urban, a really powerful agent—read the part of the draft which described me, and she said, “Oh wow, what a charismatic character. Does she have any book ideas?” And he said, “Well, yes actually, she has an idea.” So I told her what I was thinking, and she said, “Yes, this is a good idea but

Maurice Sendak

“What a world,”

perfunctory

grok,”

He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.

I stress my editorial involvement, though the author of the Flounder series stopped calling me when I made him a mixtape.