Skip to main contentWho wants to start the week out on a nostalgic, gentle note? Oh, good: Here's an Atlantic interview with Beverly Cleary, the 95-year-old Portland author who created the beloved children's book characters Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, while immortalizing Northeast Portland Klickitat Street as a place where children will forever roller skate and dig for night crawlers.
It is not a revelatory interview. To be honest, the main fact that emerges is that Cleary is very old. Still, she recalls her favorite Portland librarian, offers a hilariously dismissive rejoinder to Benjamin Schwartz's recent critique of her canon's regression, and delivers what may be the most pithy and sound explanation of New Media yet uttered: "I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works."
WWeek 2015