Obituaries should be read by everyone. We already know that life can be stranger than fiction"although contemporary fiction goes a long way toward strangeness"but what we should also know is how fascinating obituaries can be. No wonder many readers of the New York Times begin their reading with them. After all, deaths are in a dead heat with taxes in inevitability and universality, so that every life, tersely summari…
SOURCE: John Simon at 09:40PM on September 6, 2011