Books on Film: Maurice Sendak on Childhood

How do you prevent being eaten whole by a monster? PBS has a video series called Blank on Blank with a mission to “curate and transform journalists’ unheard interviews with icons, bringing them to life on radio, mobile apps, YouTube, and beyond.” They recently gave the video treatment to a 2009 Newsweek interview with Maurice [...]

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How do you prevent being eaten whole by a monster?

PBS has a video series called Blank on Blank with a mission to “curate and transform journalists’ unheard interviews with icons, bringing them to life on radio, mobile apps, YouTube, and beyond.”

They recently gave the video treatment to a 2009 Newsweek interview with Maurice Sendak. It’s smart, crazy, wise, and inscrutable all rolled into one. I daresay … Sendakian.

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(Thanks to BuzzFeed for the link)

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