David Rakoff passed away yesterday at the age of 47.
I became a fan of his in college, after a friend acquainted me with his first book, Fraud. He was brilliant, sarcastic, and tremendously insightful in his work. He amused me sometimes because what he said was funny, but more often because it was true.
His last performance was at a live taping of TAL last spring. He spoke very eloquently about what his cancer had taken from him - and then took it back with tremendous confidence.
Invisible Made Visible
RIP.