Dead People
Stefany Anne Golberg, Morgan Meis
Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Author Bio
STEFANY ANNE GOLBERG is a writer, multi-media artist, and a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York. She was a writer for The Smart Set magazine and Critic-in Residence at Drexel University from 2009, and has written for The Washington Post (Outlook), Lapham’s Quarterly, New England Review, and others.
MORGAN MEIS has a PhD in Philosophy and is a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York. He has written for The New Yorker, n+1, The Believer, Harper’s Magazine, Image Journal, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He won the Whiting Award in 2013. Morgan is also an editor at 3 Quarks Daily, and a winner of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant.
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Endorsements
What a fine, thoughtful and quietly courageous [essay about Osama bin Laden], Saddam's end and the rituals of death. It moved and persuaded me, both.
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Staff Writer, winner of three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting
Promotional Plans
Social media. 3 Quarks Daily. The Whiting Foundation. PEN World Voices Festival, Oakland Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, Goa Arts and Literary Festival (India), Galle Literary Festival (Sri Lanka).
USP
Combines biographies, obituaries and essays.
Competing Books
Consider the Lobster (9780349119526), by David Foster Wallace
Abacus, 2007
Categories
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY(BIO013000) -> Rich & Famous(BIO013000)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS(LCO010000) -> Essays(LCO010000)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY(BIO012000) -> Reference(BIO012000)
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Publication Date
June 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-336-9
$19.95 | £11.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
176PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-337-6
$9.99 | £6.99
Library of Congress
2015956006
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