It has been really, really hard to find anything linkable on this, but Lawrence has a post up at his other blog:
Barry Hughart, noted fantasy writer. I’m not a big fantasy fan, but I’ve heard a lot of folks I trust (including Lawrence) rave about the Master Li and Number Ten Ox books. I do want to read them: I just haven’t been able to accumulate copies.
(Of course, if I were sufficiently motivated, Lame Excuse Books could probably take care of that.)
I noticed this over the weekend and pointed it out to a few people, but it’s still going on:
Ras G, an experimental hip-hop producer whose kaleidoscopic, throttling beats channeled a wide spectrum of black musical history and established him as a guiding light on the Los Angeles music scene, has died at 39 https://t.co/moOmMKba26
— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) August 6, 2019
The NYT is reporting the death of Toni Morrison, Nobel prize winning writer.
Preliminary NYT obit here, which will probably be replaced by a full obit later.