Günter Grass Gone

from The New Yorker The Greatness of Günter Grass BY SALMAN RUSHDIE CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RENE BURRI / MAGNUM In 1982, when I was in Hamburg for the publication of the German translation of “Midnight’s Children,” I was asked by my publishers if I would like to meet...

Philip Levine Gone

from The New York Times An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten By DWIGHT GARNER Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, Ida and Cal. You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial...

Rod McKuen Gone

from The New York Times Rod McKuen, Poet and Lyricist With Vast Following, Dies at 81 By MARGALIT FOX Rod McKuen, a ubiquitous poet, lyricist and songwriter whose work met with immense commercial success if little critical esteem, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills,...