Off topic: Premature obits, world’s oldest person, writer vs. writers, zoo visitors kill kangaroo

Dead on paper: Celebrities whose obituaries were published prematurely. Speaking of death, the world’s last living link to the 19th century — a woman from Japan who was born in 1900 — has died. Literary shade: If only Twitter were around when the sharp-tongued Vladimir Nabokov was criticizing other writers. And a kangaroo dies after […]