May 10, 2012
Seven Days of Sendak - 1 - Rolling Stone Inerview
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
I'm going to be posting various things about Maurice Sendak for the next 7 days. Call it my own way of sitting Shiva for Sendak. Is there such a thing as "blogging Shiva"?
Though I knew and loved Where the Wild Things Are from the time I was about 7 or 8 (when the book had been out 3-4 years), my obsession with Sendak springs from a single magazine article - an interview by Jonathan Cott in Rolling Stone magazine in 1976.
Rolling Stone posted the interview, Maurice Sendak, King of All Wild Things just after Sendak's death on Monday. The article is still a great (if long) read, though the website version does not give any pictorial context. You have to see the original printed design and layout for that.
I scanned my own copy and you can download it here, if only to see the pictures that are mentioned in the article. The picture quality is only so-so, being almost 36 year old newsprint - Hi Res version (35 mb pdf) - Low Res version (8 mb pdf)
