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March 28, 2006

Marilyn Johnson's The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries: Mortuary

The dreary 20th-century obituary that r sum of family, degrees, job titles has in two decades gone from glorified tombstone inscription to tipsy anecdotes recalled at a wake. Mortuary literature has become a surprisingly lively genre, and Marilyn Johnson's entertaining amble through this transformation ably spans everything from the Sixth Great Obituary Writers' International Conference to,

From Marilyn Johnson's The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries: Mortuary

Posted by Mel at March 28, 2006 01:12 PM