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...craziness. As always, I deflected my sister's digs about my not being around more - and I didn't hear her rising desperation. It wasn't until my mom's funeral, watching my dad and sister cling to each other and weep, that I got a hint of their long ordeal - and how badly I'd screwed...
...James Dean, with whom he traveled across the country--at one point, Dean decided to pose in an open coffin at a funeral parlor--just months before Dean died in a car accident. Stock's greatest work was his 1960 book Jazz Street. When Dennis died, I found a long-forgotten dedication in my copy: "For John: There is so much in the future to be explored by us. So much to be contributed to our tired field." Amen, Dennis...
...past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler to Ross Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century...
...just one of those days,” Brand said about the sophomore sabre. “I’m confident [Staller] will be successful in the long...
...Thomas Kolasa in sabre has really come a long way in terms of being able to consistently do well and control his bouting, both emotionally and physically,” Brand said. “He’s made some good adjustments...