May152012
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
This wonderful anecdote about Maurice Sendak captures just about everything that made his work and spirit great.
Related, remember him with his last video interview, by none other than Stephen Colbert, and his unreleased drawings.
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8AM
Last game of the season coming up. Filled out my Shenies. Have to move ASAP. And am opening the store today. DON’T PANIC. Breathing has never been so hard.
April252012
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these
fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank—God only knows how often or
how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to
the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had, indeed, nearly
abandoned all hope of a permanent cure…..
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