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Apparently the author, Alex Tizón died days after finishing the story and never knew it was chosen for the June cover. He was 57.
by iaw 9y ago
Apparently the author, Alex Tizón died days after finishing the story and never knew it was chosen for the June cover.
He was 57.
- icc97 9y agoIndeed, I missed that, there's a small link at the top of the article [0] [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/a-reporters-story/524538/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/a-repor...
- gorbachev 9y agoI read a lot, but I don't usually pay attention to who the writer is, so I wasn't aware of what he has written. I've read a lot of his articles. They're just exceptional pieces of writing. The last one I remember keeping me reading almost to a point of missing my train station is his article about the missing in Alaska: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/in-the-land-of-missing-persons/471477/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/in-the-...
- iaw 9y agoThere's something appropriate about this being his final work. It's beautiful and complete in a way that's challenging to do in any work.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoAlex Tizon built an exemplary career by listening to certain types of people—forgotten people, people on the margins, people who had never before been asked for their stories. [...] Alex did not know that we would be putting his piece on the cover of this issue; he died the day we made that decision, before we had a chance to tell him. How... serendipitous.
- Angostura 9y agoA serendipity is a happy accident. I don't this really applies.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoYeah, couldn't come up with the right word, hence the ellipsis :\
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