Rats! Rats! Rats!
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T.C. Boyle has a new story in the New Yorker: 1300 Rats.
The secret to the illustrations in the award-winning British children’s book ‘Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears’ by Emily Gravett? Rats. Gravett’s daughter’s pet rats, whose contributions included gnawing holes and urinating.
Lynda Barry, who has a new book on creativity called ‘What It Is,’ talks about a ratlike inspiration in this interview with The Comics Reporter:
How can an image that just comes up in your mind make you feel happy? I don’t know! But I know that comics can do that. Don Martin from Mad Magazine did that for me a lot when I was a kid, and so did Big Daddy Roth’s Rat Finks.
NPR’s newly-expanded book coverage includes a recommendation of three (rat-free) books about food.
Carolyn Kellogg