“I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”

November 13, 2012

“I never started out as a children’s book artist. What is a children’s-book artist? A moron! Some ugly fat pip-squick of a person who can’t be bothered to grow up. That’s the way we’re treated in the adult world of publishing.” The Believer interviews the late Maurice Sendak, who passed away last May.

lives in New York. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale Review, and more.