Archive for February 20th, 2016

Obit watch: February 20, 2016.

Saturday, February 20th, 2016

Umberto Eco. NYT. AV Club:

In his non-writing life, meanwhile, he continued to amass a huge library—which numbered as much as 50,000 volumes by the time of his death on Friday night…

I wonder what’s going to happen to that. Did he leave it to some institution, or is there going to be a massive auction?

LAT. Lawrence.

Short shameful confession: For reasons I don’t recall, I saw (and liked!) the film version of “The Name of the Rose”, but I haven’t gotten around to reading the book, or any other Eco. I keep meaning to fix that…