{"id":3388,"date":"2014-04-25T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2014-04-25T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:06:44","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-week-featuring-maira-kalman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Maira Kalman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Meet me on the lawn, I want to take a picture of you.”<\/em>
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“Perhaps she stood there so that she could stand still.”<\/em>
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\nLast week I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Maira Kalman<\/a><\/strong> and Daniel Handler’s<\/a><\/strong> Girls Standing on Lawns<\/em>, to be published by the Museum of Modern Art in early May. <\/p>\n

Pictured above are two paintings from the book. <\/p>\n

Ah. Kalman. <\/p>\n

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This morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I have a tribute to the one. the only. Viola Swamp. <\/p>\n

That link is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Until Sunday … <\/p>\n

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GIRLS STANDING ON LAWNS. Illustrations by Maira Kalman \u00a9 2014. Text by Daniel Handler \u00a9 2014. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Paintings used by permission of the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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