Comments on: Thomas M Disch, 1940–2008

By: Márcio Salerno

Márcio Salerno — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:10:58 +0000

Unfortunately, I haven’t read anything by Mr. Disch, but the fact that someone realtively young, and successful in his career as a writer (i believe), takes his own life, as well as many others who did that, including Barney Bubbles and Ian Curtis, makes me sad yes, but I tell you, people, that I kind of understand what motivated them, although I really wish I didn’t!
R.I.P.

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:50:00 +0000

Hi Ray. Thanks are due to Charles Platt who I hope doesn’t mind me posting this. (Both editions of the book are out of print.)

Formal obits in the news media seem to be coming along at last but it often takes them a while to rouse themselves with writers who are highly-regarded but whose names mean nothing to journalists.

By: ray massie

ray massie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:26:35 +0000

thanks for this!

i found out on Saturday about Disch’s death and have been in a complete funk for days…

each day that goes by i’m more and more surprised at the outpouring of respect and love from that comes from “regular people” and the blogosphere, and am dismayed at the lack of anything from the mainstream.

Disch probably already had that figured out… ;-)