James Gandolfini Reads Maurice Sendak

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"Two creative icons on the precipice of mortality."

"On the evening of June 19, I attended a wonderful event at New York’s Society of Illustrators celebrating the inimitable Maurice Sendak and the taboos explored in his work.

Among the many memorable insights was a passing mention of a reading from Sendak’s 1970 classic In The Night Kitchen Sopranos star James Gandolfini had done at a 92Y tribute for Sendak’s 80th birthday in 2008.

Little did any of us at the event know that mere hours earlier, Gandolfini had been been pronounced dead in an Italian hospital while on Vacation with his 13-year-old son.

In an even more eerie strike of tragic coincidence, one of the taboos discussed at the lecture was the notion of mortality in Sendak’s books.

Thus, for reasons that are threefold obvious, there is hardly a better way to honor both Gandolfini and Sendak than with the original recording of the acclaimed actor’s exquisitely expressive reading of the Sendak classic:"
 
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