British writer John Barlow writes about being hired by a book packager to write a children’s book:

The guy at 17th Street had seen my novella collection Eating Mammals, and he wanted to know if I’d be interested in doing some writing for them. To put this in context, my writing is a bit like T.C. Boyle’s, a tad wild, but controlled at the same time. Eating Mammals is about a man who eats furniture and dead dogs. My new novel is about a soft drink made from rhubarb and cocaine. If only you could reproduce that kind of thing for kids, they said.

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