Children's author and illustator Maurice Sendak revealed two things about himself in the New York Times earlier this week:He's a bit of a curmudgeon. "'I hate people,' he said at one point, extolling the superior company of dogs, like his sweet-tempered German shepherd, Herman (after Melville)."He's gay. "“I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business,” … Continue reading Wild Things

In the interests of national unity and harmony, amazon.com has divvied up all its books into Red and Blue, then mapped their purchases, thereby creating a multihued map of our diversity and variety. Or they've simply demonstrated something booksellers in the Twin Cities could have told you already (for example, here--scroll down to the last … Continue reading Crimson, Scarlet, and Incarnadine