Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Popeye ate spinach… and M.T. Anderson chomps on broccoli when he's writing. Green veggies: the secret to literary muscles. (Source.)
M.T. Anderson "gets weepy" about Election Day—that's how much he loves American history. (Source.)
It took Anderson five years to write the first volume of Octavian Nothing. In fact, he almost didn't write it because he didn't want to co-opt an African-American slave story: (Source.)