
Tom Disch with his computer-interactive novel Amnesia (1986).
from "Remembering Tom Disch" by Scott Edelman:
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Alice K. Turner graciously hosted a memorial last night for the late
Thomas M. Disch
so that friends and
family could gather to collectively
remember him. The night of the 18th had been chosen because that was
when the Disch clan, including his younger brothers Jeffrey and Gregory
(twins five year’s Tom’s junior) and younger sister Nancy (ten year’s
Tom’s junior) could arrange to be there, and I want to thank them and
the rest of the family for allowing us in so that we could grieve and
celebrate him as a group.
There were many familiar faces from
science fiction there, such as Sheila Williams, John Crowley, Chip
Delany, Ellen Datlow, Gregory Feeley, Jacob Weisman and others, but
there were also people I had previously known only as names, and their
presence was evidence that Tom’s work mattered far outside the SF field.
So
also there last night were people such as Dana Gioia, Chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts, and David Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry.
Writer and translator Christopher Ecker, who is busy translating Tom’s
poetry into German, flew to the U.S. purely so he could honor Tom last
night.
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