Category: Obituaries

James Koller (1936-2014)

For Jim Koller now traveling the Great Barzakh, the In -be- tween that’s all we have when it all comes down to it I see you walking down that road & on the other side...

Remembering a Pigeon

via Retort & Iain Boal: To: Retort From: GS [Geoffrey Sea sends us this dispatch from Ohio on the centenary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Martha was reputedly the ‘endling’, the last...

Bye, Bye, Johnny

I’ll always remember that late night more or less incoherently right on conversation about the blues at the bar of the El Quichote, sometime in 1970. And the music, the music will always be there. Thanks.  

Gabo Lives!

I heartily agree with the following extract from Salman Rushdie’s article on Gabriel García Marquez’s in the NYT Sunday Book Review, here: We live in an age of invented, alternate worlds. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, Rowling’s Hogwarts,...

Nina Cassian (1924-2014)

Saddened to hear of Nina Cassian’s passing.  She was a Romanian poet, journalist, film critic and who also translated works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan into Romanian. She published...