{"id":36966,"date":"2012-08-10T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=36966"},"modified":"2012-08-10T21:34:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T01:34:41","slug":"david-rakoff-1964%e2%80%932012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/david-rakoff-1964%e2%80%932012\/","title":{"rendered":"David Rakoff, 1964\u20132012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/davidrakoff_paulroosin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36967\" title=\"davidrakoff_paulroosin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/davidrakoff_paulroosin-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/davidrakoff_paulroosin-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/davidrakoff_paulroosin.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>We are sad to learn of the death of David Rakoff, at  forty-seven, after a long battle with cancer. Rakoff\u2019s essays and  contributions to<em> This American Life <\/em>include what must be the most  melancholy humor writing of our time, or else the funniest melancholy  writing. Even at his most arch, Rakoff wrote with an undertone of  kindness that made his fans love him.  Many of his readers will feel that they have lost a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to learn of the death of David Rakoff, at forty-seven, after a long battle with cancer. Rakoff\u2019s essays and contributions to This American Life include what must be the most melancholy humor writing of our time, or else the funniest melancholy writing. Even at his most arch, Rakoff wrote with an undertone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[972,5460,8403,7443,7526],"class_list":["post-36966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","tag-david-rakoff","tag-deaths","tag-homor","tag-rip","tag-this-american-life"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Rakoff, 1964\u20132012 by Lorin Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 10, 2012 \u2013 We are sad to learn of the death of David Rakoff, at forty-seven, after a long battle with cancer. 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