Maurice Sendak & Gay Identity

Coming out in “Outside over There” (from Horn Book)

Maurice Sendak, “Outside Over There” (HarperCollins)

Jonathan Cott’s new book There’s a Mystery There(Doubleday) is a terrific examination of what its subtitle calls “The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak.” It accomplishes this by focusing on a single book, Sendak’s masterpiece, Outside Over There (1981), winner of a Caldecott Honor and a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. And Cott’s…