Literary Heaven

[George Wilder Jr.]

Highlighting and saluting just a few of the great authors and writers (whether fiction or other) who have gone to literary heaven in 2007: Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Robert Jordan, Richard Liegh, and others. Happy writing to everyone in 2008.

[John Dishon]

You mean, John Gardner, author of I think 14 James Bond novels? He passed away?

[Tom Barclay]

The Magic Castle, perhaps?

I'm sorry to hear he's gone. The press out here missed it altogether.

[Dante O'Donnell]

I loved Kurt Vonnegut--those vignettes he would write about the human condition made me think that the world would've been a better place if we'd put him in charge. RIP.