Rick Joukowsky
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is a letter your grandfather wrote.
You never sent it.
By the time you're 72 years old, whether you can write a novel or not should be relatively clear to you.
And though I'd written a couple, they were never good enough to publish.
And the notion that one could write a novel was totally out of my head.
And one day, what happened to me, do you ever have that thing where a song comes into your head and you can't get it out of your head?
At the moment, what's happened to me is I'm writing a book about the 1950s and the song is How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?
It's absolutely appalling.
I can't make it go away.
Anyway, what happened to me was not that a song came into my head, but a voice.