Emma Brockes
October 9, 2011 - Sydney Morning Herrald

MAURICE Sendak looks like one of his own creations: beady eyes, pointy eyebrows, the odd monsterish tuft of hair and a reputation for fierceness that makes you tiptoe up the path of his beautiful house in Connecticut like a child in a fairytale.

At 83, Sendak is still enraged by almost everything that crosses his landscape.
In the first 10 minutes of our meeting, he gets through:
(Right - Maurice Sendak's latest book Bumble-Ardy.)
■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.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/wild-at-heart-20111008-1lepq.html#ixzz1aE2Egwgq
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