By Nathan Rostron for Bookish
Monday night I was in reader heaven: listening to one of my favorite authors talk about another of my favorite authors over dinner. It was after the ceremony for the Whiting Writers' Awards, given annually to writers at the beginning of their careers. The speaker was Tony Kushner, whose play "Angels in America" I'm obsessed with--both as a book and as an HBO miniseries. (Al Pacino's performance will break your heart into tiny little pieces.) Kushner joked about the irony that after he wrote last year's "Lincoln," a movie bursting at the seams with inspiring speeches, it was the first time in 18 years he hadn't been invited to give a commencement address. So, he had many inspiring words stored up for the Whiting honorees (of which he was one in 1990, years before "Angels").
But, the real treat for me was listening to Kushner talk afterwards about his decades-long friendship with Maurice Sendak--whose "Where the Wild Things Are" was my childhood bible. Some of what Kushner said about Sendak blew my mind--and it was too good not to share. Here are five highlights:
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