I thought we might collect links to the various obituaries and news
reports in one thread for ease of reference. Some of these have
already been posted elsewhere on the forum. I've made a note by the
ones I have hard copies of. Please add any more that you know of.
I thought we might collect links to the various obituaries and news reports in one thread for ease of reference. Some of these have already been posted...
http://books.hindustantimes.com/2011/12/master-of-maverick-russell-hoban-dies-at-86/ ... -- Now live! www.cheeseonthegreen.com - a fine new Drupal website for...
are these all going to be kept somewhere? -- the world of dew is just a world of dew... and yet... ~Issa Please consider the environment before printing this...
There's a purpose-built STAFF ONLY room for just such a purpose, Mike. :-) Seriously though, once we have a fairly comprehensive list I (and/or Richard and...
Mike, In due course we'll archive the obituaries somewhere at http://www.hoban2005.co.uk/ So it would be helpful if people would send scans of any hard-copies...
Not an obit but a short, posthumously published piece on 'The New Statesman' that, rather cheekily, links to video of the Guardian Books Q&A without crediting...
Wisconsin-- http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/135601308.html Alida Allison, Professor Director, Center for the Study of Children's Literature Dept....
I'll scan my hard-copy obituaries for the archive. It would also be good to copy the text of the online versions somewhere as Chris says, since if we're all...
Richard, We could add pdfs to an obituary file on the kraken? I have the Independent one that you could not access online so unless there are images which need...
The Will Self "Russell Hoban, My hero" article I linked to the other day is available in print in today's Guardian Review, with a lovely photo of Russ looking...
links are very transitory, especially for newspapers with high turnover information, the link itself can stop working in no time at all. so saving texts is an...
AV Club, via Dave: http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-russell-hoban-author-of-riddley-walker-the-mou,66698/ Not an obit, but a nice message from Glass magazine...
The following links have come in from Dennis Miller, who is having problems posting to the group. The first one is from The Independent which so far I'd only...
Thanks for posting those links from Dennis, Richard. And thanks, Dennis, for compiling them all. It has to be said that the degree of detail in Peter...
Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-russell-hoban-20111220,0,6262835.story Interesting quote from Bloomsbury editor Bill Swainson...
... in her memoir of Russ ... Russ once rang me up to say it wasn't actually true From what I recall, Russ told me that the mythical element of that account ...
Roland is quite right to ask about literaray executorship, but then who ends up as having the trusteeship over what can and cannot be done? I have no idea...
... but ... was ... Roland, There is a collection of some early Hoban papers in the de Grummond Collection, at the University of Southern Mississipi, which is...
In my experience, such as it is, sadly true that myths excel over reality, but that, surely, is what the best of Russ' writing is all about! And, likewise, the...
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