Thursday, January 24, 2008

Let's Eulogize Someone Deserving

With all the media hype over certain celebrity deaths and escapades, let's pay tribute to a real intellectual inspiration who pasted away this past December, and, rather unfairly, received little to no coverage from the press:

Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916-2007
- American essayist, literary critic, novelist, co-founder of the NY Review of Books, writer of Seduction & Betrayal and Sight-Readings, among others

Read an excellent article on her here: http://www.slate.com/id/2179278

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