MAURICE SENDAK AND HIS ANTI-HEROES

Here’s a new piece done for my new friends at The American Interest: The incidences of writers taking ownership of words are few and far between. Moses or whoever wrote Genesis certainly owns begat; the authors of the Declaration own inalienable; and Maurice Sendak owns rumpus. I cannot hear the word without thinking of reading …

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