40 Short Stories About Bikes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781466289055)

Jennifer Weitman Since childhood Jennifer thought she would be a librarian when she grew up. She practiced reading aloud to her dolls and stuffed animals, each lined up on her bed listening attentively as their young owner practiced her reading voice and expression. As she got older, her dream of becoming a proponent of children's literature diminished and eventually was replaced with aspirations of becoming a fill-in-the-blank who wrote. Working closely with her great friend Karl Addison on their first book Zoo! Creatures of Curiosity her goal has been reached and she hopes that their creative partnership will flourish so that she doesn't have to "fill in the blank" anymore. Jennifer graduated from Seattle University's creative writing program. This is her second book. About - Karl Addison "I like the idea of taking back public space, and giving someone a reason to look down the street, up at the walls, and not at their shoes. It's so easy to become numb to your environment with the amount of ads trying to sell you something all the time." -Addison interview with The Stranger Addison currently lives and creates in Berlin. As Karl Addison's art and vision evolves-from blank slate, to pen, to paper, to mural, to installation, to unoccupied public space-so does our understanding and comprehension of the world around us. We may not notice his input, infiltrating our subconscious-our everyday-but it's there. His purpose (it seems) is three-fold: to amuse us the first time we discover one of his pieces, to draw us in-inviting us to take a closer look, and to make us stop and see every minute detail-and in a sense, to stop and see him. He wants us to value his tiny lines, his details, to appreciate his world-view and hopefully, start extolling the tiny details in our own lives.