"I never read the book or saw the movie, but I read the book based on the movie based on the book..."

The New Yorker has published an excerpt from Dave Eggers' upcoming novelization of Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book, Where the Wild Things Are. Maybe someday, somebody will make a movie based on Eggers' book, and then somebody else can publish a children's book based on that movie. (I'm starting to get the same kind of splitting headache I got years ago, when I realized that The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas was the sequel to a movie based on a cartoon that was based on The Honeymooners.)

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