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The New York Times comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead. Every day is new; every day is fraught with significance. I arrange my cup of tea, prop up my slippers. Obituaries are history as it is happening. Whose time am I living in? Was he a success or a failure, lucky or doomed, older than I am or younger? Did she know how to live? I shake out the pages. Tell me the secret of a good life!Where else can you celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? No wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and go directly to the obituary page. The Dead Beat is the story of how these stories get told. Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, surviving a mass gathering of obituarists, and making a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all, Marilyn Johnson leads us into the cult and culture behind the obituary page. The result is a rare combination of scrapbook and compelling read, a trip through recent history and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.
玛里琳·约翰逊(Marilyn Johnson),专栏作家。曾为《生活》等杂志撰稿,并担任过《君子》等杂志的编辑,她的作品散见于这些杂志和其他著名刊物。
玛里琳·约翰逊曾经为戴安娜王妃、杰奎琳·奥纳西斯、伊莉莎白-泰勒、凯瑟琳·赫本、约翰尼·卡什、鲍伯·霍普和马龙 白兰度等著名人物撰写讣告。很多读者以阅读她写的讣告为乐,并评价说:“如果她可以给我写上一段讣告,我即便现在死了,似乎也值得了。”甚至还打趣道:“我一定不能让她比我先死,不然就找不到更适合的人给我写讣告了。”
“对吉姆影响最大的是《传道书》,“所罗门王的遗嘱,在《圣经》里只占六页半,但包括了他的全部智慧。”” ——该说是作者狡猾的微言大义,还是仅仅因为东西文化差异造成的解读不能?《先上讣告 后上天堂》第六章《普通人》,读着吉姆•尼科尔森的传奇经历,很容易就会一秒...
评分我从小就喜欢这玩意儿。在根本就不知道什么是讣告之前,我就喜欢他了。 不知具体是从什么时间开始,大概是很小的时候,我不爱看的新闻联播里,我一直热衷于两种新闻报道。某某领导人逝世的消息是其中之一。(另一种是全国人民欢度春节)。 每当播报员神情肃穆,说...
评分容许我孤陋寡闻,才疏学浅。从没亲眼见过作者推崇不已的美、英各国的大报的讣闻版,否则,我敢打赌,我早已是一名资深讣迷。 此书我读来比较有极端,容易入迷,容易走神。因为地域文化背景的鸿沟,或者,又是因为小女子远不到火候,有些事件人名让我找不着北。不管怎样,有些部...
评分【读品】罗豫/文 中国人对死亡有种莫名的敬畏和回避,讣告也是千篇一律:姓名,出生年月,政治面貌,死亡原因,生平简介。我们的讣告像尸体一样僵硬,而任何敢于给这种文体注入活泼元素的行为,也被认为是像随意翻动尸体一样忤逆。 于是很难想象,在英语文化中,讣告像服装一...
评分容许我孤陋寡闻,才疏学浅。从没亲眼见过作者推崇不已的美、英各国的大报的讣闻版,否则,我敢打赌,我早已是一名资深讣迷。 此书我读来比较有极端,容易入迷,容易走神。因为地域文化背景的鸿沟,或者,又是因为小女子远不到火候,有些事件人名让我找不着北。不管怎样,有些部...
The Dead Beat pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024