Meeting MacGyver: a chat with Jack Lasenby
Two of New Zealand's best writers sat down for a chat recently. Here's poet, essayist and editor Ashleigh Young's write-up about her meeting with children's writer Jack Lasenby. FROM THE DESK OF Ashleigh Young 7 Sturgess Tce Te Kuiti Xmas Day 1998 Dear Jack, Do you remember an incredibly rude, cheeky person who wrote to you a few years ago? I told you I would never survive the preteen years if you didn’t write a sequel to your book The Lake. Well, as it happened I did survive