This book contains vivid writing about food, art, orgasms, Halloween costumes, blues singers, tear-jerking movies, surprise parties and dozens of other things. Mr. Cockburn was a fan of British obituaries, noting that in America jaunty frankness about the departed one is not tolerated. And: This book is filled with jaunty little obits. Upon the death of Tim Russert, for example, Mr. Cockburn wrote: He could be a sharp questioner, but not when it really counted and when courage was required. There are many other free-range put-downs. The former Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, he says, “would drill through his mother if he thought there was oil in substrates below her coffin.
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