Readers (and others) passing on

Reading the Times this morning I saw that Hortense Calisher died. She was 97. I've read only a little of her work, and that was in the 70's, when she was already in her mid 60's. It made me think of who else I saw read during those years. And, you know, everyone I can remember seeing in a public reading in the 70's is dead now. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Maybe lots of the readers I saw are alive and I won't remember them until reading their obits jogs my memory. That's probably not good.

Ricardo Montalbán and Patrick McGoohan also died, same day as Ms. Calisher. That be one weird trio. I remember folks talking very intensely about weekly The Prisoner episodes.