
"These are inception stories they're not even prequels. "I marveled at how, when Bill had his pick of where he could have done the Guardians film, he wanted to keep the books separate," Dlouhy said.

North and the Battle of the Nightmare King, with Joyce) worked with the author-artist on The World of William Joyce Scrapbook. She and Laura Geringer (whose imprint appears on the title page of The Man in the Moon, and who co-authored the first chapter book in the Guardians series, Nicholas St. This is not the first time Dlouhy has worked with Joyce.

"As he's finessing, he's bringing in better ideas for what the future is going to be." "He has this brilliant way of seeing the entire arc for one chapter, and he needs to stay with it until it can't get any better," she said. But, she said, Joyce thinks in movie frames. With most authors, she receives an entire completed manuscript. "It's almost like things ripple forward," said Atheneum editorial director Caitlyn Dlouhy, describing the process of editing a manuscript by William Joyce. "One for My Baby" is three minutes long, but you get a full, complete story, with flawless prose that'll haunt you till you die. I believe that Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer and Cole Porter are just as good as Tolstoy but they get the job done faster and have a better beat. Jeeves knows all, is totally at ease and always gets his way.Īre there any genres of writing that you feel are underappreciated as literature? Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby-the guy dreamed big and tried so hard. The crayon from Harold and the Purple Crayon-it has such a clean elegant line. What fictional characters in literature would you most want to be? The Jungle Book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay War of the Worlds Stuart Little Where the Wild Things Are Mad magazine's "snappy answers to stupid questions" The Edward Gorey Anthologies The Hound of the Baskervilles The Great Gatsby Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada War of the Worlds Roget's Thesaurusīook(s) you most want to read again for the first time: I believe unshakably that you can, in fact, tell a book by its cover. At least a thousand-many designed by Chip Kidd.

And its sequel, You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks, the mad forgotten genius of comics. And Ulysses by James Joyce, 'cause we have the same last name and nobody else has read it either. I enjoy pretending that I've read The Collected Works of Sarah Palin, and then make up insane quotes from them and people always believe they're true. Wyeth Beatrix Potter Maxfield Parrish Glen Baxter Winsor McCay Van Gogh Scott Fitzgerald Edgar Rice Burroughs Michael Chabon E.B. I have a disjointed pile of history, nonfiction, fiction, art books and an old paperback about people who spontaneously combust, which I think can qualify as any of those aforementioned genres.Ĭrockett Johnson F.
