![]() They would visit his house in Brooklyn when he was growing up ("All crazy – crazy faces and wild eyes") and pinch his cheeks until they were red. The monsters from Wild Things were based on his own relatives. Sendak's own exile took rather longer to resolve. There are monsters in there, but Max faces them down before returning to his mother for reconciliation and dinner. To his millions of readers, of course, Sendak will always be young, a proxy for Max in Where the Wild Things Are, who runs away from his mother's anger into the consoling realm of his own imagination. I can't believe it." He smiles and his face transforms. "I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. Sendak shakes his head beneath the low-beamed ceiling, in this room full of art and old rugs. He represents how bad things have become. He owns Harpers and I guess the rest of the world, too. ![]() Rupert Murdoch: "His name should be what everything is called now." But he publishes you! " Yes! Harpers. The American right: "These Republican schnooks would be comical if they weren't not funny." New York: "You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book." It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. ![]()
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