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。”
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.
【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《先上讣告,后上天堂》是一本趣味性读本。话说林子大了什么鸟都有,有一群鸟热衷于讣告。他们撰写讣告追捧讣告收藏讣告,每年还开一次讣告迷世界大会。讣告俨然是一门学问,并且妙趣横生。每天太阳升起,他们守着各大报纸网站等待一个个时代的落幕,等待其他人的日落。还...
评分这是一本在新世相图书馆最开始书单上的书,作为一个写作者,我一直觉得自己头上站着3个人,有两个大人物就不去说了,第三个人叫玛里琳·约翰逊,也就是本书的作者。 从死人身上找乐子这件事,在中国人看来可能不可理解(也许读到这句话你就不舒服)。但,呃,这本书把黑色故事...
评分发表于2007年12月20日《国际先驱导报》14版【阅读】 http://www.chubun.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/9926/b145 发表时有改动,此为原稿。 玛里琳•约翰逊是位美国专栏作家,她对讣告尤其着迷,醉心于阅读,热衷于撰写,甚至还专门写了本关于讣告的书——《先上讣...
评分发表于2007年12月20日《国际先驱导报》14版【阅读】 http://www.chubun.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/9926/b145 发表时有改动,此为原稿。 玛里琳•约翰逊是位美国专栏作家,她对讣告尤其着迷,醉心于阅读,热衷于撰写,甚至还专门写了本关于讣告的书——《先上讣...
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