The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist joins Studs to talk about life in Virginia and Baltimore during the Great Depression, as further described in his memoir Growing Up.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

After having received the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak knew he had to do a different kind of book. Sendak recalled his trips to Brooklyn as a child and how going out to eat was a huge treat. From there, Sendak's book, "Night Kitchen," was born.

Discussing the book "Margaret Mead and Samoa the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth" with the author Derek Freeman.