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Can This Be Happening? An Interview with Jewish Author Gordon Korman By Shmuel Botnick & Yosef Zoimen
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OctOber 29, 2015 | the Jewish Home
It’s impossible to sit across from Gordon Korman without trying to psychoanalyze him. It’s a psychoanalysis that comes, not as a result of years of studying psychology, but as a result of years of studying Macdonald Hall, Slapshot League, Bugs Potter, Ungifted, Supergifted, or any of the other 99 books written by the iconic author over the past four decades. Every move is cause for speculation. Was that a Bruno-type thing to say? Did I just sense some Rudy Miller there? But, as our interview would progress, we would realize that these speculations were largely imagined. “My books generally are not based upon personal experience,” Gordon reveals. The wildly colorful characters that grace the thousands of pages of Gordon Korman books are the product of an insanely creative mind and razor-sharp perception of today’s children and teenagers. Wait, back up. Did you just say sit “across”? From Gordon Korman? Like, the Gordon Korman? Are you being serious? And he spoke to you? We forgive your incredulity. We have a hard time believing it ourselves. But it happened. Trust us, it really happened.
