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“Where the Wild Things Are” writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak not only redrew children’s literature, he was inspired to do so by his difficult Bensonhurst childhood. From the Washington Post obituary: Mr. Sendak was shaped foremost by a sickly and homebound childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn, the deaths of family members in the Holocaust and vivid memories as a youngster reading about the kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son. The tributes are pouring in as Sendak’s death comes just days after the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch. In that Brooklyn way, the two men were actually connected: Yauch’s film production company Oscilloscope distributed a Spike Jonze documentary about Sendak called Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak. In the film, a salty, acerbic Sendak says he loved his siblings but hated his parents growing up, and blames their various failed attempts to abort him for his childhood illnesses. There’s… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/rip-maurice-sendak-another-brooklyn-son/feed/ 0