‘Not Dead Yet’ review: Gina Rodriguez plays an obituary writer who sees ghosts
Gina Rodriguez stars as a newspaper obituary writer who sees ghosts — specifically of the people about whom she’s writing on the ABC single-camera sitcom “Not Dead Yet.” (Lara Solank/ABC) An alternate title for the ABC comedy “Not Dead Yet” could have been “I See Dead People.” Such is the case for Nell (Gina Rodriguez), […]
Paul La Farge, Inventive Novelist, Is Dead at 52
Paul La Farge, whose highly praised novels played audaciously with history and narrative technique as they explored how the past can affect the present, died on Jan. 18 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 52. His wife, Sarah Stern, said the cause was cancer. Mr. La Farge’s novels and short stories defied easy categorization, but they […]