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🖊️➕🎶 Writer + composer. Electronic sound scores for various modern dance pieces; fiction in Shimmer Magazine. (he/him)
May 27, 2021 26 tweets 11 min read
Okay, here we go. This is boring but I guess I'm doing it.

This story of Eric Carle and his publisher "fighting bitterly over the stomachache scene" in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is fake. Eric Carle never said this, the interview is a parody, it was an April Fools joke. 1/? Image The joke interview is from an April Fools issue of @parisreview. We know it was a parody, and not real, because Eric Carle's website lists the interviews he's done. This one is not on the list. And @parisreview hasn't re-tweeted the interview in memoriam.

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