When did your occupation become real to you? Like, this is what you knew you were going to do? I had a notebook I kept in the car when I was 7 or 8, and I would speed-draw the most mundane things we drove past: fences, houses, street signs, gas stations. What is your earliest memory associated with what you do now? It’s Kate’s way letting writers know we’re valued. This is the essential form and function of Last Night’s Reading. As someone who was bestowed the honor of appearing on LNR, I can tell you simply: I was hype! In that instant, I was reminded that, even when you feel like no one is paying attention to what you have to say, someone always is. But ask any writer who’s appeared on Last Night’s Reading-Kate’s platform for documenting all the individual writers who have said something she’s kept-what it feels like to see themselves on her page, and you’ll understand why Kate is so important to the world of literature. Instead of scrambling for loose gems, she thanks the writer by giving something of her own: an illustration accompanied by a quote of theirs that resonated with her. What do you do when you’re at a Junot Díaz reading and Junot, the literary genius that he is, begins dropping gems like a clumsy jeweler? Most of the room would be focused on the floor, trying to pick up what was being put down. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.” Most Likely to: Win the Nobel Prize for a Graphic Novelįavorite Quote: “Dr.
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