Gilbert Sorrentino r.i.p.

Just got word from Ted at Dalkey Archive. Gilbert Sorrentino died on Thursday, apparently from cancer. Dalkey Archive has a press release up here. I haven’t gotten around to writing up his most recent release A Strange Commonplace, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. You can see a bunch of my old posts and reviews here. What else can I say? He’s one of my favorite writers. I hope he died happy.

As of today The New York Times hasn’t bothered to notice, and Sorrentino was a New Yorker (many of his books are set there, too).

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