Health & Fitness
Children's Author Maurice Sendak, R.I.P.
The most influential children's author of our time has died.
The New York Times eulogizes Maurice Sendak, dead at the age of 83, and my favorite line is:
He was a man of ardent enthusiasms — for music, art, literature, argument and the essential rightness of children’s perceptions of the world around them.
Nowhere was Sendak's passion more on display than in this amazing 2011 interview with Terry Gross of the NPR program "Fresh Air." In it, Sendak openly weeps as he talks about the impact of death on those left behind and faces his own impending death, including the prospect of never having the opportunity to talk to Gross again.