Botsford’s death was more The New York Times, not really the wider world as such, as the first paragraph indicated. So it seemed to me that the media that really missed Mr. They are among the best obits in the world, and they are quite widely read and authoritative. This reminded me that I had read last year the obituary by The Times of London, or was pretty sure I had. The Times of London published an obituary two months later, and the Boston University alumni magazine, Bostonia, noted his death in its recent winter-spring issue.” But then in the second paragraph I learn that his death did not really go so unnoticed as all that: “His death was noted two days later by The New England Review of Books on its website and, 16 days later, in a 25-word paid death notice in The Boston Globe, but it was otherwise not reported widely.
My first thought was that it was great that The Times decided to run his obituary despite him having died a year earlier. 19, in London - a death that drew little public notice at the time. Although I only saw it today, this obituary ran in The New York Times three days ago under the headline: “Keith Botsford, Man of Letters and Saul Bellow Associate, Dies at 90.” And the wild experience plants itself – as all good journalism should – right in the first paragraph (or lead, or lede): “Keith Botsford, a globe-trotting, multilingual and multifaceted man of letters who became a longtime collaborator with Saul Bellow, died last year, on Aug. It felt at times as if I was reading satire, or high comedy, or was it low comedy? It felt often like reading something out of “Scoop,” the satirical novel of the newspaper business by Evelyn Waugh. And I must have read obituaries on an average of at the very least once per week for the last 40 or so years. PARIS – I just had the most extraordinary obituary reading experience of my life. Keith Botsford in a YouTube interview (before his death)
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