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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:54 pm Post subject: E.L. Doctorow is dead |
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Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as “Ragtime” and “The March” and applied its lessons to the past and future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84.
His son, Richard Doctorow, confirmed he died Tuesday at a New York hospital from complications of lung cancer. He lived in New York and Sag Harbor.
Considered one of the major authors of the 20th century, Doctorow enjoyed critical and popular success over his 50-year career. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 1986 for “World’s Fair” and the National Book Critics Circle award in 1989 for “Billy Bathgate” and in 2005 for “The March.”
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I'm pretty sure I never read any of his fiction. Maybe a few of his essays, but nothing is really coming to mind. I do recall him sparring with Norman Mailer at a PEN conference in New York in the 1980s.
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tophatcat
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:41 am Post subject: Re: E.L. Doctorow is dead |
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Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as “Ragtime” and “The March” and applied its lessons to the past and future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84.
His son, Richard Doctorow, confirmed he died Tuesday at a New York hospital from complications of lung cancer. He lived in New York and Sag Harbor.
Considered one of the major authors of the 20th century, Doctorow enjoyed critical and popular success over his 50-year career. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 1986 for “World’s Fair” and the National Book Critics Circle award in 1989 for “Billy Bathgate” and in 2005 for “The March.”
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I'm pretty sure I never read any of his fiction. Maybe a few of his essays, but nothing is really coming to mind. I do recall him sparring with Norman Mailer at a PEN conference in New York in the 1980s.
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I'm curious why you are so interested in people who have recently died, obituaries?
R.I.P.
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yodanole
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Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Maybe he is simply interested in the passing persons of note. As a current event or news item. There does not seem to be any suspicion that he is lurking in the cemetery awaiting the freshly interred for nefarious purposes or any of that, is there?  |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| There does not seem to be any suspicion that he is lurking in the cemetery awaiting the freshly interred for nefarious purposes or any of that, is there? |
No, I get 'em fresh at the morgue. |
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yodanole
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