"30" For Two More
First it was Norman Mailer. And now, Ira Levin. They've written "30" to their final manuscripts. I know that "30" is used more often in journalism, but its inherent meaning, "end of story", seems so appropriate a way to refer to the end of a storyteller. Earlier this year, it was Madeleine L'Engle's turn. Sigh. I think I should brace myself. A lot of the writers I've read over the years are getting on.
posted by pgenrestories at 10:43 AM
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i guess Ira won't be able to come back from the disastrous Son of Rosemary if there is truth to the saying: you're only as good as your last story.
And now Levin. It's like all the writers I grew up with are starting to disappear...
That said, one of my earliest memories as a kid involved seeing a bunch of people standing around a black baby carriage and screaming "Hail Satan!". To say that Levin wrote "weird" stuff is probably an understatement...
I think I read somewhere that he regretted writing Rosemary's Baby because of the surge in Satanism that followed its popularity (helped too by The Exorcist, and other similar tales).
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