And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow - Gawker Comments

And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow

RPMCESTMOI — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:21:59 EST

I loved George's mind. He was criticized as opaque, arch, difficult. He was not always easy, but when I edited the work for book publication...he would work over the piece with Shawn (Mr. Shawn, to him) and then I would have a go as his book publishing editor.. If I understood and believed the argument it was off to copy-editing.
Often, I would read the work aloud while my wife drove us to Tanglewood on the weekend from Boston. It helped to hear and to have her great critical faculties involved. Since I hear when I read silently this became just another exercise.
He was, as you suggest, so right.
We had lost veracity, authority, a sense of personal identity, lost the latter to the external nobodyof the media world. We have lost it. We are the shadow pwople chasing even paler shadows.

In addition to other non-fiction work, George wrote two wonderful plays, Elizabeth Dead and The Tennis Game. Great drama, great commentary. Two plays that should be in revival.

I am so proud to see that year after year since Within The Context... the recognition of the genious of the work and the importance of this man, now dead too young, increased. I am also proud to have been involved as a midwife in the process of bring his work to a larger public.

Yrs,
McD

RPMCESTMOI

And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow

penalcolony — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:10:11 EST

A brave, perceptive, and honest man, who carried through life a playful but heavy heart until it simply broke.

Even while reading My Pilgrim's Progress when it first came out, I wondered whether he would ever be able to write at length again. Now, it seems, we know.

penalcolony

And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow

Dickdogfood — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:44:14 EST

Not an alternative to mediacrity, so much as a more rarified flavor of it. I mean, crimony, the whole fedora thing.

Dickdogfood

And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow

Monte Wooley — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:24:14 EST

God bless G.W.S. Trow. Once a living rebuke to the pale imitations who followed him into media criticism, he'll now stand forever as an immortal alternative to mediacrity.

Monte Wooley