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We’d been watching the debates, and trying to decide, after each, who won. Then the kids started pulling out the measuring cups and the teaspoons and the canisters of flour and sugar. They’d all bake something, and the grownups were supposed to taste each, and vote. The balloting was fraught. How do you vote against a sugar cookie? But it got me wondering about what elections look like to first-timers. Did politics look to them like a confection, Ron Paul a lemon square, Rick Perry marzipan?
Jill Lepore on how kids vote: http://nyr.kr/U9hzXV
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Nathan Englander remembers Nora Ephron’s baking advice, and what she taught him about being a working artist: http://bit.ly/MOF7Ox
…that to me is a good way to sum up what being a working artist is all about. It’s about being a person who makes real things in a real world. You set out to do something, and to do it right. And if it doesn’t come out exactly as planned— you don’t just live with it, you find a way to make it even better than it would have been before.
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