Summary: Children's book author Maurice Sendak is a kind of father figure for many of us. He had a profound sympathy for children and never belittled their emotions. He daylit their anxieties and coaxed them into poetic form in books like Where the Wild Things Are, In The Night Kitchen , and Outside Over There (a book that frightens many adults). In 2009, a pair of Newsweek reporters interviewed an 81-year-old Sendak. The result was a good article . But the interview itself never aired, so we're playing
