R.I.P. Clancy Sigal

[Mark Kohut]

I did not even know, did not keep up my superficial knowledge of such
so now I too want to read it...

am ordering...

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just read the introduction of Sigal's Hemingway book. Wonderful and true.
>
> 2017-07-18 10:11 GMT+02:00 Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>:
>
>> Thank you, Laura – just ordered the Hemingway book.
>>
>> J
>>
>> 2017-07-18 1:11 GMT+02:00 Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Clancy passed away last night at a ripe old age. No obits out yet, but
>>> hopefully there will be some out soon.
>>>
>>> I first became aware of him as he was portrayed by Doris Lessing in The
>>> Golden Notebook, as the character Saul Green. He wrote a wonderful
>>> reminiscence, on her passing:
>>>
>>> https://newrepublic.com/article/115645/doris-lessings-former
>>> -companion-remembers-her-legacy
>>>
>>> But he also made a huge impression on me back in my youth with his
>>> best-known work, Going Away: A Report, a Memoir. Look it up if you haven't
>>> read it.
>>>
>>> He wrote with honesty, wit and a keen eye, about writers,
>>> pop-psycho-babble, Hollywood, lefty politics (he was a red-diaper baby) and
>>> the culture and politics of the day. He also co-wrote the screenplay for
>>> Frida (2002). Just an all-around witty, wonderful great guy. I was lucky to
>>> be able to read his many mini-essays on his Facebook page. I'll miss them
>>> (and him).
>>>
>>> His complete works:
>>>
>>> *Weekend in Dinlock*, Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
>>> *Going Away*, 1961
>>> *Zone of the Interior*, New York: Thomas W. Crowell, 1976.
>>> *The Secret Defector*, New York: Harper Collins, 1992
>>> *A Woman of Uncertain Character: The amorous and radical adventures of
>>> my mother Jennie (who always wanted to be a respectable Jewish mom) by her
>>> bastard son* (2006)
>>> *Hemingway Lives! Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today*, OR
>>> Books, 2013
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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