Slog - Comments on Lawrence Rust Hills http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills Dead at 83. You should read the entire New York Times obituary, but to get you interested, here's the capsule: he was the fiction editor for Esquire, back when Esquire was continually in battle with one or two other big-name magazines for the title of most important publisher of short fiction in the world. From the Times, here's a short list of authors whose work Hills guided from the beginning: Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and E. Annie Proulx. And here's another bit of... Copyright 2008 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:59:12 -0800 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:51:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by John Bailo Walter Monheit used to wax about those cracking good times at Esquire. Sparkling! Simply, so.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101401 Books Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:07:05 -0800 Comment by Self Hating Internet Troll COMMENT DELETED: Off-Topic/Spam

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]]> Self Hating Internet Troll http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101408 Books Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Interesting Dorothy Parker quote.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/lawrence_rust_hills#c1101421 Books Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:30:40 -0800 Comment by jebus h. xst How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man.

Yes.

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