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24 Aug 2016 Conversations with Tyler Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
“I mean, perhaps had he not done it, someone else would have. But the point is, he did, and he was transformative enough — albeit in a perhaps campy way when viewed through a postmodern lens.”
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- Margalit Fox
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- 24 Aug 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Now we have the saturated pink promise of endless summer because of him. We do. I mean, perhaps had he not done it, someone else would have. But the point is, he did, and he was transformative enough — albeit in a perhaps campy way when viewed through a postmodern lens. The Times put him on page one. Take his obituary. Was a version of that written in advance because you were thinking, “My goodness, the lawn flamingo. That fellow has to pass on sooner or later. We’re going to be ready”? Or is there some other process through which you learned of his passing, maybe a local paper or a wire?…
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