MARILYN JOHNSON
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WorksThe Dead Beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries
Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, the author tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. The result is the true story of a flourishing art, with impassioned writers, addicted readers and a parade of characters we never quite appreciate until they’re gone. A Barnes & Noble Discover book and a Borders Original Voice. Epilogue
people died, and more newspapers stepped up to celebrate their lives. About Books
www.aarpmagazine.org/books These bite-size topical essays are appetizers for book lovers. One week, it's about the hypocritical moral superiority of the movie Capote toward the writer’s greatest work; another week, it's about the pleasures of reading on the red-eye. One of a Kind:
a tribute to Katharine Hepburn This obituary of Hepburn was written seven years before her death for a special issue of Life magazine, but the monthly magazine died before she did. Life Books issued it in a coffee-table volume featuring the photographs of John Bryson, with a long version of this essay as its text. Talk about Pain: A Tribute
to Marlon Brando young actor or a huge and tormented cross-dresser, Marlon Brando could not make us look away. His life is remembered, and puzzled over, in this tribute, written years before his death. |
