{"id":4648,"date":"2018-06-07T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T14:48:02","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-vera-brosgol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Vera Brosgol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/06\/Vera-Brosgol_photo-by-George Baierforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Honestly, I was resistant to doing a childhood memoir. I feel like there are a lot of them these days \u2014 and good ones. The world didn&#8217;t need one from me. My publisher asked me to at least think about it, and I did, crankily. Crank crank crank. But as soon as the camp angle occurred to me, all my crankiness went out the window. I knew I could make a funny book that would be a blast to draw and be different from what&#8217;s out there. I&#8217;m always telling people about the outhouse. The outhouse needed to be immortalized!\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with author-illustrator and graphic novelist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4141\">Vera Brosgol<\/a><\/strong>, whose middle-grade graphic novel, <em>Be Prepared<\/em>, arrived on shelves in April. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/camping-out-vera-brosgol\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with a bit more art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Honestly, I was resistant to doing a childhood memoir. I feel like there are a lot of them these days \u2014 and good ones. The world didn&#8217;t need one from me. My publisher asked me to at least think about it, and I did, crankily. Crank crank crank. But as soon as the camp angle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}