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David Rakoff (1964 – 2012)

10 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by Shawn in Travel and Observations

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Arts, dark humor, David Rakoff, Fraud, Half Empty, humor, memoir, nonfiction, NPR, writing

 

A great inspiration to me and a consistent benchmark for my feeble attempt at writing these last few years.  I loved his voice and he helped me begin to find mine which, for me, is pre requisite to happiness.  I have begun to find the difference between imitation and admiration, a contempt for lazy repetition, and the importance of the dictionary.

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