milk for the morning cake: a MAURICE SENDAK poll

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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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