The NY Times Magazine has some wonderful essays this week, about people who died in 2002:
- Tony Kushner on Geraldine of Albania & Lucia Pamela
- A letter from Jimi Hendrix to his father — before he was famous
- David Rakoff on Edith Bouvier Beale — of Grey Gardens fame
- Armistead Maupin on Harry Hay
- Ann Patchett on Eileen Farrell — an opera diva who lived with her NYPD husband on Staten Island
- Anthony Giardina on Stephen Ambrose — notable for taking the historian to task for glorifying war, and thus making new ones more likely
- Plus, a beautiful “What They Were Thinking” with Arthur Miller with a photo taken by his late wife, Inge Morath