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The latest issue of The Believer features an excellent interview with Maurice Sendak, conducted before his death in May. And because they are very, very nice people they’ve made it available online.
Talk about quote-ables, this one’s full of ‘em.
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Gary Groth remembers Maurice Sendak, and introduces excerpts from his career-spanning interview with the artist in the upcoming TCJ #302.
...moreRumpus cartoonist Jon Adams pays tribute to Maurice Sendak with this illustration over at City Cyclops.
...moreMaurice Sendak passed away this morning at 83. The New York Times looks back at his lengthy life.
“I refuse to lie to children… I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.” A 2011 interview with The Guardian.
...moreMaurice Sendak’s got a children’s book out, which makes it a total of 30 years since his last written/illustrated masterpiece.
This thirty year period wasn’t exactly silence—he’s been illustrating books, designing operas, etc., Bumble-Ardy just marks his return to a wholly written and illustrated production.
...moreIn conjunction with the national release of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, 10/16/09, the first feature film Jonze has directed since Adaptation (2002!), there are a lot of Wild Things happenings around New York. (Also, his company Girl Skateboards is releasing a limited edition Where the Wild Things Are Board Series.
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MONDAY, October 5, 2009 – SUNDAY October 11, 2009
This week in New York, Stephen Elliott reads from his memoir The Adderall Diaries, which has its East Coast Launch with n+1, Spike Jonze week in New York, Sufjan Stevens performs, Arthur Jones hosts The Post-It Note Reading Series, Opium Magazine hosts Live Relaunch, Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime screens at the NYFF.
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