Hey Just wanted to op in and and congratulate you on your NYT bestseller!!! representing Brooklyn always! I love it!!:)
One of My Jobs When I Was First Starting Out
I once had a job where I worked for a marketing company. They would tape a whole day’s worth of television programming. I had to skip past the shows, look at the commercials, and document what commercials came on. If it was a supermarket commercial, I had document the specials and how much they cost. Sometimes they would catch me watching the TV shows. That was a job where I just sat and waited for them to fire me. Funny enough, that job got me into college because I would be so through by the time I got done with the day that I would walk from 42nd Street to Houston Street in New York. One day after work, during my walk, I happened upon an open house at Cooper Union and that’s where I ended up attending.
You, as librarians, stand at the door beyond which this infinity resides…As the 19th century French writer Victor Hugo said: “A library implies an act of faith.” You are the keepers of that faith.
The next baby. Will be delivered next month.
How can you not illustrate without putting forth some sort of agenda?
Shadra Strickland and I talk about art. Well I sort of do.
I was a proud graduate.
Jimi, Me & NPR
NPR featured Jimi and invited myself and the book’s author Gary Golio to discuss our work. Fun.
From Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow, the New York Times bestseller. They sound nice together. I think Jimi would approve.
I felt cramped in school, not because the teachers were bad but because I wanted to do something else, which was paint.—My Father
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