The Wild Things

Dave Eggers has made idiosyncracy a literary hallmark: his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius mixed postmodern narrative attitude with an unapologetically emotional appeal. His novel What Is the What ventriloquized the very real struggles of a Sudanese refugee. Now, with The Wild Things, he offers a full-scale prose re-telling of one of the most influential and beloved classics of children's literature, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

Ward Sutton

 

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About the Columnist
Ward Sutton’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in the Village Voice, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire, The New Yorker, and on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.

Ward's Drawn to Read appears monthly in the Barnes & Noble Review. Click here to see the complete Drawn to Read archive.

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