But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that
obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.
Not exact matches
Mui began her career as a receptionist and
obituary writer at The Times - Picayune
in New Orleans, where she was born and raised.
When Dan Walker died last week, it was hard for
obituary writers not to note that he was one of four Illinois governors over the past five decades who ended up
in prison.
Johnson, who previously delved into the worlds of librarians and
obituary writers, explains
in the opening pages that Lives is not about radiocarbon dating or arcane scientific theory.
But we're here not to bury Sandler — he's years, if not decades away from a career - long
obituary — but to praise him
in writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mistress America, While We're Young, Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) latest exploration of love, life, and failure among New York City's social, cultural, and artistic elites, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).
Her first job
in journalism was as the
obituary writer for a California daily newspaper.
Not even Fleet Street
writers, whose tradition of skewering the deceased
in obituaries is legendary (and often admirable
in a way), would defend this.
When Joanna Russ, one of the few successful female science - fiction
writers, died last year, her
obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a
writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women.»
Kathleen, the imperious editor
in chief, is smarting from a betrayal
in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy
obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined
in a most unexpected way.
The
obituary in the New York Times wasn't particularly long or prominently displayed, but something about it drew the attention of
writer John Grisham.
In POE, a 23 - year old
obituary writer and college dropout runs afoul of an evil spirit while on a haunted house assignment and must uncover the common link between (among other things) a string of killings, his own deceased parents, and the strange numbered «code» that obsesses him.
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As the English
writer and critic John Russell wrote
in Schapiro's New York Times
obituary, «his output
in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small
in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.»
A former
obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as
in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted...
A former
obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as
in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock -
obituaries of living celebrities such as Jeff Koons, Bill Clinton, and Kate Moss.
In the Times writer Roberta Smith's recent obituary about the abstract painter Julian Stanczak, Ms. Smith detailed how the artist achieved these optical illusions and became a leader in the Op Art styl
In the Times
writer Roberta Smith's recent
obituary about the abstract painter Julian Stanczak, Ms. Smith detailed how the artist achieved these optical illusions and became a leader
in the Op Art styl
in the Op Art style.
And that
in The New Yorker's
obituary for Chantal Akerman, dispersed amongst the list of the filmmaker's notable achievements, there was a story about the time the
writer «paid a visit to her Paris apartment and was offered chocolate from Belgium?»
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