Pinkwater and Red Tides

[Richard Moorman]

At 04:23 PM 5/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The same Daniel Pinkwater who is a reg on NPR?  Same guy who is raising a
>Siberian wolfdog?  Lives in New York's Hudson Valley?
>
>He's fat, and his wife is fat?  And he eats a lot of ratatouille?
I don't know about the ratatouille or his wife, but he does raise dogs,
he's an NPR commentator, and lives somewhere in New York state.  

The very one who wrote the inimitable "Lizard Music", about a young boy who
stays up very, very late, past the end of "The Tonight Show", when the
lizards playing music appear on the teevee set!  A-and he goes off to the
secret island where the lizards live!  And has adventures!

The trouble with most of Pinkwater's books (and with Gravity's Rainbow, in
my opinion) is that they start off magnificently with fabulously cool
concepts, and drivel off disappointingly at the ends...

But don't let that stop you from reading Pinkwater.  Try "Lizard Music",
"The Hoboken Chicken Emergency", "Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars" and
practically anything else you can find.  "Blue Moose" makes excellent
bedtime kids' reading.  

Needless to say, he publishes a lot more books than Pynchon does, too.  He
must be almost Asimovian in his output by now.


Unlike Pynchon, Pinkwater often appears in public and actually answered
some fan mail I sent him years ago.