David Rakoff Dies

David Rakoff, a writer famous for his essays has died of cancer. He was 47. Rakoff, a James Thurber Prize for humor Yank, printed three books during his lifetime that began with the lines. "We were so happy it was unfortunate." Rakoff has cancer diagnosed in 2010 was, and eventually lost the use of his left arm during the treatment. Rakoff, a Canadian by birth, in New York he lived, learned that he had a tumor while writing emptiness, his book in defense of pessimism and melancholy. At the awl, printed memory and a devout Churchill Sicha Rakoff describes the work as "ahead of their time meaning that we tend to really live for the moment. He was no longer in the big apple city of his time."