The Coolest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes

This is a short, quick, and easy read.

Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK (comedy is hard!), but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.

• Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, was a sickly child. His father once told him that he might see an angel outside his window, and if he did see an angel, then his illness would be over quickly. However, his father also said that angels were quick and therefore were hard to see:...