Hail & Farewell: André Schiffrin
Dennis Johnson
André Schiffrin would have been really pissed off by his obituary in the New York Times yesterday — although I can imagine him first chortling over the fact that the… Read more »
André Schiffrin would have been really pissed off by his obituary in the New York Times yesterday — although I can imagine him first chortling over the fact that the… Read more »
Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles’s unofficial poet laureate, died on November 22 after a long illness. She was sixty-seven. “She wrote not just about the black experience in Los Angeles but… Read more »
Irish and American writers gathered to read their favorite Seamus Heaney poems for an overflowing audience in Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Monday night. Heaney’s wife Marie and son Michael… Read more »
This past January, Melville House author Jakob Arjourni died after a fight with pancreatic cancer. Today would have been his 49th birthday. He was born Jakob Bothe on October 8, 1964.… Read more »
Novelist Tom Clancy, whose distinguished fans include the likes of Ronald Reagan and Colin Powell, is dead at 66. Intensely interested in technical details, Clancy was best known for his… Read more »
Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanian poet, was killed last weekend alongside sixty-one other people in the deadly standoff at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. He was seventy-eight. His son, Afetfi, was wounded… Read more »
Sushmita Banerjee, an Indian writer living in Afghanistan, was killed last week by suspected Taliban militants who took her from her home in Paktika Province, and shot her more than… Read more »
Kentucky Derby weekend (and the hangover that punctuates its end) marks the anniversary of the first collaboration between Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman. In “The Kentucky Derby is… Read more »
Nina Bourne worked in book publishing for seventy years. After graduating from Barnard, she started her career in 1939 and learned her celebrated copywriting skills from beloved and legendary Simon… Read more »
Could we please agree to stop using the word “dead” in headlines about print media and publishing? I’m convinced “the death of print” has been around for at least 130… Read more »