I learned about Valerie Eliot's death before the news went out on the wire services yesterday because an acute reporter at The Times (that is, The Times of London) found my 2005 article about the Eliot Letters and emailed me (proving how easy I am to locate). He introduced himself as a science reporter who happened to be working on Sunday and mentioned "the two cultures," which immediately warmed my heart. I'm a literary person who has ended up doing a lot with science, so the idea of having a science writer cover this literary story appealed to me, and we had a lively conversation about the Eliots, the Eliot estate, and the new Eliot publishing that's now underway. Almost all of that got cut by the subeditors (what Americans call copyeditors) in the article that appeared today, but my response to the most important question is there:
Remembering Valerie Eliot
Remembering Valerie Eliot
Remembering Valerie Eliot
I learned about Valerie Eliot's death before the news went out on the wire services yesterday because an acute reporter at The Times (that is, The Times of London) found my 2005 article about the Eliot Letters and emailed me (proving how easy I am to locate). He introduced himself as a science reporter who happened to be working on Sunday and mentioned "the two cultures," which immediately warmed my heart. I'm a literary person who has ended up doing a lot with science, so the idea of having a science writer cover this literary story appealed to me, and we had a lively conversation about the Eliots, the Eliot estate, and the new Eliot publishing that's now underway. Almost all of that got cut by the subeditors (what Americans call copyeditors) in the article that appeared today, but my response to the most important question is there: