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Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018
Best-selling Chef Anthony Bourdain apparently killed himself last Friday in Paris. Here are some dining tips he published in the New Yorker back in 1999. The fish specialty is reasonably priced, and...
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Colonel Cyril Richard “Rick” Rescorla (May 27, 1939 — September 11, 2001)
Captain Rescorla in action at Ia Drang, Republic of Vietnam, 15 November 1965. photograph: Peter Arnett/AP. Born in Hayle, Cornwall, May 27, 1939, to a working-class family, Rescorla joined the...
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Requiem for the Village Voice
Irony of ironies, Telly Davidson, in the Paleocon American Conservative, pays tribute to the passing, and has kind words for, the red rag Village Voice. As a respected and accomplished Boomer-era...
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Good Obituary
Delaware Online: Wilmington – Rick Stein, 71, of Wilmington was reported missing and presumed dead on September 27, 2018 when investigators say the single-engine plane he was piloting, The Northrop,...
View ArticleStan Lee: Dead at 95
Wikipedia: Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, and publisher. He was the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and later...
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George H. W. Bush, 12 June 1924 — 30 November 2018
George H. W. Bush, captain of the Yale Baseball team. As the photo above demonstrates, George Herbert Walker Bush was the living embodiment of the All-American Boy ideal represented in fiction set at...
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Jonas Mekas, 24 December 1922 — 23 January 2019.
Guardian obituary. Back in the late 1970s, Mekas did a showing of “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania” (1972) at Film Forum in New York. Back in Soviet times, Americans had seen a lot more of...
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“W.E.B. Griffin”— November 10, 1929 – February 12, 2019
Obituary: William E. Butterworth III, the best-selling author, has died. He was 89, and had fought a years-long battle with cancer. While his body of work includes more than 250 books published under...
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Charles McCarry, 14 June 1930 — 26 February 2019
WaPo obituary: Charles McCarry spent almost 10 years in the CIA as an undercover officer, operating alone as he roamed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. He never carried a...
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Albert Ollie Poe (8 July 1931 — 18 May 2019)
photo: Douglas Lees. Albert was the younger brother of the great Melvin Poe and nearly as famous a huntsman. He had a renowned career as Huntsman with the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the Fairfax Hunt, and...
View ArticleLeon Redbone Passed Away
Variety: Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old-school vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley-style music, died earlier today, his family confirmed. He was 69 — although, in characteristically...
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Norman Stone, 8 March 1941 –19 June 2019
Richard J. Evans, in The Guardian, really unloaded on the conservative historian Norman Stone in an obituary. was character assassination. As a judge of the Fraenkel prize in contemporary history some...
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Remembering Françoise Sagan, 1935-2004, III
Sagan received an appropriately admiring obituary in the Telegraph. Françoise Sagan, who died yesterday aged 69, exploded on to the French literary scene in 1954 with her first novel, Bonjour...
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Harold Bloom, 11 July 1930 — 14 October 2019
Harold Bloom, Yale Sterling Professor of English, author of 40 books, and defender of the Western canon died yesterday at age 89. Some Twitter comments on his death: Michael Kimmerman: Armed with a...
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Nathaniel Holmes Morison III, Virginia Gentleman, d. October 10th, 2019
Nat Morison, heir to Welbourne and uncrowned king of Northern Virginia Horse Country, passed away October 10th, aetatis 83. He was a proud graduate of the University of Virginia who looked...
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Sir Roger Scruton, born February 27 1944, died January 12 2020
I thought the Telegraph did not really do him justice. Sir Roger Scruton, who has died aged 75, was a philosopher and academic variously identified as “one of the nearest things Britain has to a...
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The Legendary Peter Beard
A particularly famous photograph by Peter Beard (characteristically individualized) shows Beard writing in his journal from inside the jaws (of a freshly deceased) crocodile. Apparently, there was a...
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Remembering Peter Beard
Everyone is doing Peter Beard obituaries. Here is a good one by Elsa Cau from Les Grandes Ducs. (translated from the French.) Socialite and partygoer, artist, photographer, friend of all, lady’s man,...
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