“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)
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![imwithkanye:
With malice toward all. Maurice Sendak’s feelings on:
Ebooks: “I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
New York: “You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It’s too tumultuous, it’s too crazy!”
The American right: “These Republican schnooks would be comical if they weren’t not funny.”
Rupert Murdoch: “His name should be what everything is called now.” But he publishes you! “Yes! Harpers. He owns Harpers and I guess the rest of the world, too. He represents how bad things have become. But I don’t know a better house. They’re all in trouble. They’re all terrible.”
Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times: “That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that.”
Roald Dahl: “The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he’s very popular but what’s nice about this guy? He’s dead, that’s what’s nice about him.”
Stephen King: “Bullshit.”
Gwyneth Paltrow: “I can’t stand her.”
[Guardian]
(One of the greatest interviews. Ever.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnrsh7EKP1qanm80o1_500.jpg)
With malice toward all. Maurice Sendak’s feelings on:
Ebooks: “I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.”
New York: “You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It’s too tumultuous, it’s too crazy!”
The American right: “These Republican schnooks would be comical if they weren’t not funny.”
Rupert Murdoch: “His name should be what everything is called now.” But he publishes you! “Yes! Harpers. He owns Harpers and I guess the rest of the world, too. He represents how bad things have become. But I don’t know a better house. They’re all in trouble. They’re all terrible.”
Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times: “That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that.”
Roald Dahl: “The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he’s very popular but what’s nice about this guy? He’s dead, that’s what’s nice about him.”
Stephen King: “Bullshit.”
Gwyneth Paltrow: “I can’t stand her.”
[Guardian]
(One of the greatest interviews. Ever.)
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RIP Maurice Sendak
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Doesn’t this The Princess Bride book cover just bring back all your favorite parts of the movie?
Hm? Anyone?
(via io9, where there’s an interesting handful of paragraphs in which they draw some comparisons between the book and the movie. Makes me want to read the book like, right this second.)
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DAT LINEUP
The book is called
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
The story I wrote for Ray on his 92nd birthday is in there.
Look at the other authors. People like Margaret Atwood, Joe Hill, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Alice Hoffman, and Audrey Niffenegger are on that list. Every single one of us wrote a new story for this book.
Do you know why?
Because He is Ray Fucking Bradbury, that’s why. A kind, sweet, dear funny man, without whose stories the world we live in now would be infinitely drearier.
You should go and pre-order a copy now (the other links were Amazon - here’s the Indiebound link), before you forget. (You will thank me later.)
