Author, painter and illustrator Maira Kalman is prolific - in addition to writing more than 30 books for children and adults, she also creates New Yorker Magazine covers. She likes to channel historical figures. Kalman’s latest book is called Still Life with Remorse. It’s been described as a meditation in words and pictures and contains family stories and vignettes about artists like Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. I spoke to Maira Kalman in her Manhattan studio about the difference between regret and remorse and why she chose to pull up a chair in a cemetery next to her husband’s grave to start writing her next project: a book about joy.