*Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.* [*Jamaica Kincaid*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39237.Jamaica_Kincaid?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) January 6, 1975: A decade before Jamaica Kincaid published her debut novel, Annie John, she made her first appearance in The New Yorker. She was quoted in the magazine’s Talk of the Town section, admitting that her favorite song of all time was "Kung Fu Fighting."