“What you’re looking for… is the person’s soul, the essence, what their perspective on the world was, as well as what people thought of them and what motivated them… One of the things I always try to do is find the ‘Rosebud’ moment in a person’s life that changed them, that made them who they were.”
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Sam Roberts, metropolitan writer turned obituarist for the New York Times, talks with Lit NYC host Harry Siegel about his new book, Are They Dead Yet? and why it turned out that writing about the dead, on deadline, isn’t a death sentence for a journalist after all in a wide-ranging conversation touching on everything and everyone from Roberts’ obituary of Jesus Christ in Vanity Fair to how Marcus Garvey’s prematurely printed death notice may have killed him, and much more.
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