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David Rakoff. Oh, well, your heart does a little bit of-- a certain special Canadians chamber opens up and enfolds that name, and you keep it. Or if you mention a Canadian, a famous Canadian, in conversation to a Canadian without acknowledging it, there's a vague flicker over their eyes like the shadow of an angel's wing passing.
Aug 10, 2012 · David Rakoff, a writer known for his funny, cynical essays and frequent appearances on This American Life, has died at 47. He had been battling a malignant tumor since 2010. Rakoff was born in ...
Aug 10, 2012 · David Rakoff in 2010. Larry Busacca/Getty Images. David Rakoff—a writer whose essays combined generosity for other people with deep pessimism about our general lot in a wholly original and very ...
David Rakoff, Timothy G. Young (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
David Rakoff's ingenious, delicately haunting final book, which he completed shortly before his death from cancer last year at age 47, is a novel written entirely in rhymed verse. Probing, poignant, and wickedly funny, the 12 linked set pieces that make up Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Doubleday) go back and forth in time and ...
Aug 12, 2012 · NEW YORK (AP) — David Rakoff, an award-winning humorist whose cynical outlook on life and culture developed a loyal following of readers and radio listeners, has died after a long illness.
Sep 6, 2011 · David Rakoff is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: the essay collections Fraud, Don’t Get Too Comfortable, and Half Empty, and the novel in verse Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish. A two-time recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, he was a regular contributor to Public ...
