(continued from
July 3, 2006)
This morning’s New York Times
has an obituary for the father
of the paper’s executive editor,
Bill Keller:
For more on George Keller and on
the more colorful Levi Stubbs,
who also died on Friday,
see the Times‘s AP obituaries.
Keller’s son Bill has emphasized
what he calls the “allure” of the
Times‘s lifestyles coverage.
An example of such coverage–
a 2006 story on visual art in Mexico
that included a reference to…
For descriptions of such life,
I prefer the literary art of
Robert Stone– in particular,
Stone’s novel
A Flag for Sunrise.
Credit must be given to
the Times for an excellent
1981 review of that novel.
(This was well before
the younger Keller
joined the Times in 1984.)
My own views on life are
less like those of either Keller
than like those of Stone and
perhaps of Levi Stubbs, the
other father figure who
died on Friday.
Related material:
“Yes, you’ll be goin’ loco
down in Acapulco,
the magic down there
is so strong.”
— Levi Stubbs
