In Memoriam
January 13, 2012
A Weed in My Flower Garden: Remembering George Whitman of Shakespeare and Company 2
by James Gregor
A friend was coming from Atlantic City. We needed another bed! Ignoring the line of waiting customers, George ordered me to climb out onto the dilapidated roof to retrieve a piece of rotting plywood, skewered with nails. I obliged, of course. Later, he brought me gluey pancakes, which I clandestinely flushed down the toilet.
December 16, 2011
Remembering Hitch 4
by Mark O'Connell
It took a particularly potent kind of charisma to allow a person to engage in such concentrated namedropping, urinating all the while, and still manage to come across as utterly charming. Hitchens had that kind of charisma.
December 16, 2011
We’ll Miss Hitch 0
by C. Max Magee
Vanity Fair remembers Christopher Hitchens, a favorite of ours who was always fun to root for, and who, as you’ve no doubt heard by now, died last night. Andrew Sullivan remembers an email exchange from happier times. Hitchens’ ebook from this year, The Enemy, is in our Hall of Fame, and we reviewed his memoir, [...]
September 14, 2011
Good-bye to e-Book Pioneer Michael Hart (and Thanks for Those 36,000+ Freebies) 3
by David Rothman
It was Michael Stern Hart of Project Gutenberg who popularized the Net as a book library. He died with more than 36,000 free Gutenberg books on the Web, in 60 languages, as his legacy.
April 9, 2011
Sidney Lumet Dies at 86 0
by C. Max Magee
Sidney Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men, Serpico, and many other classic films, has died at 86.
February 7, 2011
Brian Jacques, R.I.P. 1
by C. Max Magee
Brian Jacques, whose Redwall series beginning with Redwall and Mossflower figured prominently in my life as a young reader, has died.
