Topic: The Golden Girls

I remember hearing about Douglas Adams‘ death in 2001; having never read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, my reaction was fairly nonchalant. Only a few months later, I happened to pick up the first book of the series, and I was hooked. Suddenly, I was filled with regret: Why couldn’t I have started reading the books when the genius who created them was still alive?

Movies, TV, and books make it so that we never fully lose the people who directed, acted in, or wrote them: Their likenesses and their ideas are captured in film and print, and can be reproduced until the end of time. But there’s a difference between admiring a celebrity and later mourning his/her death, and not discovering someone until after he or she has passed away. More »