milk for the morning cake: a MAURICE SENDAK poll

eat out more often

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

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

I hope nobody watches it w/ their kids, sendak is fond of the word motherfucker

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."

Listen here:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140435330/this-pig-wants-to-party-maurice-sendaks-latest

http://www.daemonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bumble-Ardy-550x440.jpg

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."

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.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.m/the_big_picture/2009/10/spike-jonze-is-wild-about-maurice-sendak.html?p=2
This 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]."

NYT twitter feed reporting Sendak has died...

Aw man. But such a life!

I want to pimp this interview again. Introspective, sad, and brilliant Maurice Sendak on mortality, his sexuality, childhood, inspiration, and looking out the window.

wow. really sad news.

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

RIP. A helluva a guy.

Woah at Spike Jonze native Brooklynite connection.

Love the description of his books:

"Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten..."

"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."

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.

i don't think i've ever read my daughter a Sendak book. maybe tnite will be the first...

Bumble-Ardy – his last – is really lovely and dark.

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.

otm but RIP anyway

his recent ubiquity on TV (HBO doc, colbert appearances) was a real gift

His interview with Colbert is one of my favourite things I've seen on TV recently. Such an awesome dude, RIP.

fucking hell.

RIP

this makes me crazy sad.

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