I hope it is not de trop to post a link to my weekly column, The Queen of the Dead, here: Eve Golden: Queen of the Dead |
Every Monday I write about the week’s most interesting (well, to me, anyway) obituaries. No one makes a cent off of it, so I hope linking is okay–thought some of you folks might find it interesting.
It’s part of Larry Harnisch’s Daily Mirror blog (http://ladailymirror.com/). Larry was an* L.A. Times* reporter for 40-some years, and writes about local history.
Holy Hannah, Syms and Filene’s Basement went under? Who’s gonna fund the Channel 13 movie now? And they had the Swingle Singers or some equivalent singing during their spot. Bummer. 
I really must get out of this economic crisis and buy some of your books. You certainly can write.
Aren’t you sweet! Try bookfinder.com–I won’t make any money on it, but you can get books real cheap there.
Love it, and thank you!
I don’t tell many people, but I find reading obituaries very interesting. One of the neatest I ever saw was of a local man who died two days before his 100th birthday. It was a pretty standard obituary up until the very last line. This went “The party scheduled for his 100th birthday will go on as scheduled” THIS is the way I’d want to go out, with a party, not a solemn wake!
Any idea when the John Gilbert book will be released?
May 2013. It’s due at my publisher’s in May 2012, and I am *just *beginning to panic a wee bit.
I *love *obits: mini-biographies and social history. I have been clipping and saving them since I was eight years old (I can tell by the earliest dates on them). Have a four-drawer filing cabinet packed with obits (friends from around the world send me choice ones now, too).
Eve, I’m sure you’ve heard Tom Lehrer’s “Alma”. He prefaced it by saying how “Last December 13th there appeared in the newspaper the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.” He went on to tell about the life of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, and the life she lived. Done to waltz time of course.
The gold standard for obits is The Telegraph: Obituaries - The Telegraph
Funny, fascinating, witty. I know they get my obits from work, my *dream *would be to write for them someday.
I hate it when people sign up for this board solely to promote their projects.
I been waitin’ and sneakin’ for twelve years, but–*gotcha ya!
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Regardless of motives, I appreciate yet another ADD distraction that makes me smile. Sort of like awsome commercials, they just want to sell me something, but they add to fractal-like thought pattern that I indulge in. Love it.
Oh, I know **Chessic **is just joshin’, I’ve been around here *forever *and just recently mentioned two things I am working on.