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Carolyn Gilbert’s new obit blog

By Claire Noland
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Carolyn Gilbert, an obituary writer who founded the International Assn. of Obituarists, has a new blog where she intends to dip into obits from her files and archives dealing with ‘the literary art of the obituary’:

My hope is that the content will provide an interesting perspective on the obituary, its writers and its readers. From time to time there will be postings of the obituaries of the day. However, the primary material will feature the story behind the story -- a look at the foundation for the tip of the iceberg: the obituary itself.

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My favorite entry so far on the new blog is ‘If You Are Alive Today, You Need An Obituary!’

For more, check out an interview Gilbert did with NPR a few years ago.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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