Ray Bradbury has passed away. In 1994, I walked right by him in a hotel in New Orleans without recognizing. By the time someone explained who he was, it was too late. In junior high and high school I worked my way through the entirety...
giants of american letters
Yglesias:But in some ways the most interesting thing about the Spanish Flu is the extent to which its occurrence has been purged from our historical memory despite the fact that.
This is unfortunate. A great writer....what to say? Didn't strike me as the type. He was one of my favorite contemporary writers; I didn't find his work depressing at all..
1923-2007.Mailer has been a relative blind spot among American novelists for me; I've only read The Naked and the Dead (on the subject I prefer James Jones) and Armies of the Night. Mailer, of course, is more (or less) than his books; he's also been...