So I dream of writing my memoir. I see some authors who do nothing but memoir: that's their genre, not just one title and you're done. I write little bits. But mainly I write to my friends these days, or to anyone who wants to write back. Remember Mr. Va Jay Jay? He must have sensed that he couldn't get more without giving something, so he wrote me ( Read more... )

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, a book I'm sure you loved as a child, too, being interviewed in the NYT on the occasion of the opening of his opera, based on an opera first performed by orphans in a concentration camp. (link)