3:58 PM
Knowing that I'm a sucker for news on literary figures who share our alma mater, the Great Minzini passes along a link to the obit of Leslie Fiedler. As when I first discovered Heinlein and Feynman, I'm sad to be rediscovering Fiedler only after his death -- I remember hearing about him in school, but he's always been in my mental "get around to that someday" file. I suppose I might as well get started: a quick search reveals that there's a lot of Fiedler's work out there to read (and perhaps even more, if you count those he influenced), and I look forward to receiving my just-ordered copy of The Fiedler Reader and digging into it. I'm also glad to see that there's a biography of Fiedler, if only because I'd love to read more about his days as a cryptologist (yes, I'm a sucker for WWII cryptology too...)