Famous family

My brother is famous on the blogs again, and I must say, what is most funny about the following is how bizarre it is to read about someone I know so well from the perspective of a recent acquaintance of his.  Young adult novelist and reporter, Lauren Mechling recently featured him on her blog.  The entry was heavily laced in the sort of exuberant girl-who-drinks-a-big-cup-of-tea-in-your-local-coffee-shop-and-likes-to-knit tone that is familiar in general but odd in the particular situation of being homed on someone I know:

This post is going to take a little explaining. My favorite person on earth is Arthur Meyer, who works at my local bookstore and is this pink-cheeked secret treasure of a person. I don’t know exactly what it is about him, but whenever I see him Im in stitches–once he was recommending books on the basis of how fun they are to shelve, once he was persuading me that the best book in all of the store was “Theres a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom” and another time he was recounting the indignity of dressing up as Magic Johnson for Halloween and being mistaken for a black cancer patient. Anyway, how can you not love a kid like Arthur? Also–hello! he’s called Arthur Meyer.

A different writer might render my brother in a very different lens.  I think it is cool that Mechling has clearly developed a writer’s voice and trains it well on people she encounters in life.