Ruth Krauss and Sendak both published/mentored by editrix extraordinaire Ursula Nordstrom!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
At Harper's Books for Tots.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
aw, Bread and Jam for Frances
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
If I regressed back to kindergarten I would probably want to marry Frances the Badger even more than the cute twins that made me smile in spite of my hard-ass 4.5 yr. old persona at the time
if your biggest pop culture formative influences at age 4.5 are the Fonz and Mork from Ork then god help you
― dell, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?category=Programs888Events888Literary+Readings+and+Performances888Main+Reading+Series888&productid=T%2DTP5MS34
― gabbneb, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, I assume you've read the "Dear Ursula" book? I checked it out once but never read it.
I vote for Nutshell Library--something about miniaturizing Sendak mitigates the scariness and the uncanniness. Also love soundtrack and film "Really, Rosie" which I think has gotten parental props on this board.
"Mommy" is great--all of our pop-ups are reference only, and the kids just pore over them all day long.
Brundibar is interesting.
http://www.rosenbach.org/shopsite/media/Brundibar.jpg
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd love to read a biography of this guy. are there any?
― J.D., Saturday, 12 April 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
The New Yorker has done a couple of stories. Get your hands on this one, as long as you don't mind having any illusions about Sendak shattered.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact_zarin
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 12 April 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Saturday, 12 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
HBO doc airing tomorrow
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
Filmmakers Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze present an intimate look at the life of noted children's book writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent at times conflicted with his success and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly influenced his work. Now 81 and living in Connecticut, Sendak is best known for his first (and most famous) book, Where the Wild Things Are, which he wrote after being a book illustrator for over 10 years. Though it was originally panned, Wild Things would eventually become one of the most beloved and critically lauded children's books of all time and, to Sendak's chagrin, came to define his career. Through his words, old pictures and illustrations, Tell Them Anything You Want offers a deeply personal look at an otherwise private and somewhat isolated man. Premieres on Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWSzb0wmJs
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
man, maurice must be making so much bank this year. i wonder how you spend a massive windfall when you're in your early 80s.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
eat out more often
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting about the documentary, it premieres tonight at 7PM EST. Here is a schedule with some additional airdates:
http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=712469
― Bangs, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
this doc was awesome imo
many fun facts, like outside over there was inspired by sendak's childhood terror after learning of the lindbergh kidnapping
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope nobody watches it w/ their kids, sendak is fond of the word motherfucker
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Absolutely, absolutely wonderful interview on Fresh Air b/w an agéd and sober Sendak, on his legacy, death, and new book. Can't recommend it enough - he's a little hazy at points, but never loses the thread. About his new book Bumble Ardy
Sendak says that he worked on Bumble-ardy while taking care of his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, who died of lung cancer in 2007."When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death," he says. "Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does. But there's no question that the book was affected by what was going on here in the house. ... Bumble-ardy was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own. And it took a long time. It took a very long time."
"When I did Bumble-ardy, I was so intensely aware of death," he says. "Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-ardy. I did Bumble-ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does. But there's no question that the book was affected by what was going on here in the house. ... Bumble-ardy was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own. And it took a long time. It took a very long time."
Listen here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140435330/this-pig-wants-to-party-maurice-sendaks-latest
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.daemonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bumble-Ardy-550x440.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazing interview. Amazing guy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview
Just this part alone!
Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Just came to post that interview. I never bothered to try to watch the movie of Where The Wild Things Are but I did see the documentary the Spike Jonze made about him at the the same time and there was some hilarious stuff in that.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.m/the_big_picture/2009/10/spike-jonze-is-wild-about-maurice-sendak.html?p=2This was my favorite part:
In one extraordinary scene, Jonze films Sendak reimagining his mind-set as an ambitious young artist, almost greedy for success. "I want to be famous, I want to be snooty," Sendak says, reconnecting with his younger self. "I want to have a big, gray shiny car and everybody will see it. Here comes Big Mo! Holy [moly]. It's him, it's him! Sure I'll give you an autograph, you [expletive]."
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
NYT twitter feed reporting Sendak has died...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
Aw man. But such a life!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
I want to pimp this interview again. Introspective, sad, and brilliant Maurice Sendak on mortality, his sexuality, childhood, inspiration, and looking out the window.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
wow. really sad news.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
NYT obit now up -- cause was complications from a recent stroke:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
RIP. A helluva a guy.
Woah at Spike Jonze native Brooklynite connection.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
Love the description of his books:
"Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wow, RIP Mr. Sendak. Thank you for freeing up the minds and spirits of children and human beings everywhere.
I just read Night Kitchen to the kids at bedtime last night, for the who-knows-how-manyth time? Tonight we'll do Wild Things, for sure.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i've ever read my daughter a Sendak book. maybe tnite will be the first...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
Bumble-Ardy – his last – is really lovely and dark.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
its hard to be sad sad because he livef such a rich, complicated, long life. but jesus this is like someone telling me my irascible great-uncle maurice just died.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
otm but RIP anyway
his recent ubiquity on TV (HBO doc, colbert appearances) was a real gift
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
His interview with Colbert is one of my favourite things I've seen on TV recently. Such an awesome dude, RIP.
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
fucking hell.
RIP
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
this makes me crazy sad.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/544825_3499025228098_1045659274_3235343_2065513989_n.jpg
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link