There was an NPR commentary in the 1980s, found in Fish Whistle and on a Dove Audio cassette, about Pinkwater nearly becoming a circus performer, and lamenting the loss. ("I'm pretty sure if he had been asked, Hemingway would have gone.") So it is:
I'm reading Charles Wilkins' The Circus at the Edge of the Earth*, which came out in 1998 and is the author's chronicle of the time he spent with the Great Wallenda Circus on a remote Canadian route [...]
His musical cravings, he allowed, ran to gospel quartets and bandstand tuba, a taste he acquired from the writer and tuba player Daniel Pinkwater, who, for a number of months during the mid-1970s, worked as Bob's ring assistant and groom.
New York Review of Books’ Children’s Collection imprint presents Lizard Music
Commenters confuse Walter Cronkite with Dan Rather. In 30 years, we'll hear Anderson Cooper in its place.
Big Orange Splot
I'm reading Charles Wilkins' The Circus at the Edge of the Earth*, which came out in 1998 and is the author's chronicle of the time he spent with the Great Wallenda Circus on a remote Canadian route [...]
His musical cravings, he allowed, ran to gospel quartets and bandstand tuba, a taste he acquired from the writer and tuba player Daniel Pinkwater, who, for a number of months during the mid-1970s, worked as Bob's ring assistant and groom.
New York Review of Books’ Children’s Collection imprint presents Lizard Music
Commenters confuse Walter Cronkite with Dan Rather. In 30 years, we'll hear Anderson Cooper in its place.
Big Orange Splot
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