Thursday, May 10, 2012

Maurice Sendak: The King of All the Wild Things

By  - Vulture Books

399514 02: Standing with a character from his book "Where the Wild Things Are," author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media January 11, 2002 before the opening of an exhibition entitled, "Maurice Sendak In His Own Words and Pictures," at the Childrens Museum of Manhattan in New York City. The multimedia exhibition, which opens January 12, will feature photographs, text, illustrations, music and audiovisual components. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Here we are, eight days into May, and already the score is two-zero in favor of Death — which is more or less always the score, give or take several orders of magnitude. Four days ago, we lost Adam Yauch, one of the men behind the Beastie Boys. Today, we lost Maurice Sendak, who was, in his own way, also a man behind a lot of beastie boys. Max, Martin, Mickey, Pierre, and countless more, all of them running around in their naked, scowling, raging, rampaging, gleeful, gloating, havoc-wreaking (and, eventually, home-seeking) glory. Now they have become what, at least in the books, they always were: fatherless.
How could something so dark and scary and tremendous have come into my life without leaving an entry wound? »

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