--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> If someone from Rara-Avis is going to speak, I would be grateful
if he
> or she would include (collectively) the many Raravian fans of
Westlake
> in the eulogy. This is a major loss, the equivalent of the death of
> Hammett, Chandler and only a few other masters. Terrible news to
start
> the year.
Lawrence Block has chimed in on Bill Crider's blog, and I suspect
he'll be tapped (or will volunteer) to do a better NYT obit than the
one I quoted yesterday evening (courtesy a heads-up from John Boston
on the FictionMags list, though Bill and some others already had the
bad news).
Anyone who sees any sort of indication of an open service will be
doing us a favor, of course, by passing it along. Thanks.
Todd Mason (who first read Westlake in my childhood, with his sf
story "The Winner" in Harry Harrison's original anthology NOVA
1...I've been a fan since)
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