My favorite Pinkwater book is an audiobook, Fishwhistle. A couple of dozen pieces, many originally NPR commentaries, about . . . hot dogs, dog training, world travel, memorizing poetry while working a machine in a factory, art school, military school, and more.
I kept my cassette in my car for years, and played it for friends when I drove them places. This would lead to many “driveway moments,” listening to the end of a story, or one more story (“He was daft!”) in the destination drive. I had heard the pieces a dozen times, but I loved hearing friends snort and giggle on hearing the Captain’s account of eating a hot pepper that sent him down the long tunnel into the afterlife.
Eat pudding!
