Mr. Bad News (1966)(reprints.longform.org)
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Mr. Bad News (1966)
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That was a good read!
It is much more interesting than the obituary the nytimes ran for him: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/05/nyregion/obituary-alden-w...
It is much more interesting than the obituary the nytimes ran for him: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/05/nyregion/obituary-alden-w...
Gay Talese, the writer, is a famous for bringing a new style of journalism (as were a few years later people like Tom Wolfe, H.S Thomspon and so on). His most famous piece is called "Frank Sinatra has a cold".
This was amazing. I’ve never been so captured by an obituary.
The one that appeared on HN a while ago was for Alan Turing.
This profile of the obituary writer gives a better impression of how and why some of those people could have been overlooked.
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlook...