Humorist David Rakoff Dead at 47
If you need me, I’ll be reading Fraud and weeping.
All week I have been talking up Rakoff’s story from the July 27th episode of This American Life (I believe it first ran on WireTap).
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“What remains of your past if you didn’t allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”
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David Rakoff came to my college’s literary festival when I was a senior and I couldn’t believe his reading wasn’t...
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He is just so fucking fantastic. And this just REALLY FUCKING SUCKS. He did a recent story in which he sounded really...
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I’m so saddened by this. I want to go home now and re-read Fraud cover to cover.
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All week I have been talking up Rakoff’s story from the July 27th episode of This American Life (I believe it first ran...
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This is incredibly, achingly sad.
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