One of the reasons this might be posted is that the author (Paul La Farge), who was also a novelist (I particularly liked his The Night Ocean), recently died of

One of the reasons this might be posted is that the author (Paul La Farge), who was also a novelist (I particularly liked his The Night Ocean), recently died of cancer at the relatively young age of 52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_La_Farge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_La_Farge