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Author
Publisher
Sequence Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality...
2) The New York Times book of the dead: 320 print and 10,000 digital obituaries of extraordinary people
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
3) Obit: poems
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural...
Author
Series
Deadly deadlines volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, and then turns up dead, obituary writer Winter Snow falls under suspicion and, with the help of friends and family, must uncover the killer before the next obituary written is her own.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries -- reading about the remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry, innovators and artists. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. With Mobituaries -- the book companion to the CBS podcast of the same name -- the journalist, humorist, and history buff is righting that wrong, profiling the people who have long fascinated him -- from the 20th century's greatest entertainer... to...
7) Basket case
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Tagger, once an investigative reporter now writes only obituaries. One of his death notices says Jimmy Stoma, lead singer of the once notorious Slut Puppies died in a scuba-diving accident. Sensing foul play he begins to investigate as the rest of the Slut Puppies begin dying.
8) Dead last
Author
Series
Thorn novels volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a real-life serial killer begins to copy storylines featured on a popular cable television crime series, the reclusive Thorn joins forces with an Oklahoma policewoman in a case that implicates the show's head writer and leading man.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Frustrated reporter Aidyn Kelley begrudgingly agrees to help a hospice patient prepare her obituary. But old Clara Kip has some incredible stories-and some surprises up her sleeve-that promise to make this seemingly throwaway assignment a life-changing one"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Expecting to cover zoning meetings and school plays, Paul Tomm signs on as a cub reporter with a small-town paper near his Connecticut alma mater. When Jaan Puhapaev, a professor doing his research on the ancient art of alchemy, dies under suspicious circumstances, Paul is called back to the campus to write an obituary. But Puhapaev had no family or friends, and the only person who seems to have known anything about him is the beautiful next-door...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by "Overlooked," the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of notable people whose deaths went unreported in the paper"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nell Stevens' life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she's been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger's house, and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up. Even worse, a forty-something f**k up. But...
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