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- 7/31/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
By Roger Friedman
hollywoodnews.com: Today would have been author/writer/novelist/essayist/short story writer Laurie Colwin’s 66th birthday. She died on October 24, 1992 of a sudden heart attack at age 48.
Every year I tell my readers about Laurie, so we never forget her. All of her terrific, insightful, funny, trenchant books are in print, which is a rarity. All the novels like “Happy All the Time,” “Family Happiness,” and “A Big Storm Knocked it Over” to short story collections–”Another Marvelous Thing,” “The Lone Pilgrim”– and her essays “Home Cooking” and “More Home Cooking.”
I always like to remind everyone that it was Laurie, working in the editorial department of Ep Dutton under the late great Henry Robbins, who discovered and published Fran Lebowitz’s seminal collection, “Metropolitan Life.” Laurie read Lebowitz’s “I Cover the Waterfront” column in Interview magazine, and told Robbins they had to publish her.
hollywoodnews.com: Today would have been author/writer/novelist/essayist/short story writer Laurie Colwin’s 66th birthday. She died on October 24, 1992 of a sudden heart attack at age 48.
Every year I tell my readers about Laurie, so we never forget her. All of her terrific, insightful, funny, trenchant books are in print, which is a rarity. All the novels like “Happy All the Time,” “Family Happiness,” and “A Big Storm Knocked it Over” to short story collections–”Another Marvelous Thing,” “The Lone Pilgrim”– and her essays “Home Cooking” and “More Home Cooking.”
I always like to remind everyone that it was Laurie, working in the editorial department of Ep Dutton under the late great Henry Robbins, who discovered and published Fran Lebowitz’s seminal collection, “Metropolitan Life.” Laurie read Lebowitz’s “I Cover the Waterfront” column in Interview magazine, and told Robbins they had to publish her.
- 6/14/2010
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
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