R.I.P., Mr. Sendak. You created one of the great anarchic works of literature, Where the Wild Things Are, which in its brevity is far deeper than most thousand-page novels.
If you missed Sendak’s unbelievably amazing interview with Stephen Colbert, or indeed if you didn’t, please enjoy:
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I’ll also leave a link to the piece NPR ran today, a compilation of several interviews he did with Terry Gross for Fresh Air. I nearly wept several times in the car. I did not know – though should not have been surprised – at how dark and haunted his childhood was by death, both the prospect of his own death from disease and the death of his father’s entire extended family in the Holocaust. I also laughed out loud on several occasions. He modeled the Wild Things on his childhood disgust with grown-ups, with their bulbous noses and bad teeth and strange hairy growths. That book is just about perfect. The Fresh Air segment ends with a fairly recent interview with an obviously very frail Sendak saying, “Live your life. Live your life. Live your life.”