Melancholy Maurice Sendak Speaks

April 25, 2011 | 1

Where the Wild Things Are author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, 82, wistfully reflects on age, love, and mortality in this interview, after a mural he painted in New York was restored and moved to the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia.  (via @BookBench)

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