From an earlier A.P. obituary for Mehta —
" When the Center for Fiction honored Mehta in 2018 with a
lifetime achievement award, tributes were written by Joan Didion,
Haruki Murakami and Anne Tyler, who praised 'his precision' and
'deft assurance' and called him the 'Fred Astaire of editing.' "
John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland,
reportedly died there in the early morning
of Saturday, November 16, 2019.
See also Alasdair Gray and Eddington Song —
in particular, Logic in the Spielfeld.
Author Alasdair Gray reportedly died yesterday,
on the feast of St. Thomas à Becket.
"His Collected Verse (2010) was followed by
Every Short Story 1951-2012 . Hell and Purgatory ,
the first two parts of his version of Dante’s
Divine Comedy , “decorated and Englished in
prosaic verse”, appeared in 2018 and 2019.
In November Gray received the inaugural
Saltire Society Scottish Lifetime Achievement award."
— https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/29/
alasdair-gray-obituary
See some related remarks from May 15, 1998.
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