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We\u2019re out until January 5, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we\u2019re away. We hope you enjoy\u2014and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Margalit<\/a>

Photo: Ivan Farkas<\/p><\/div>\n

In nearly twenty years and twelve hundred obituaries, Margalit Fox, a senior writer at the <\/em>New York Times, has chronicled the lives of such personages as the president of Estonia, an underwater cartographer, and the inventor of Stove Top Stuffing. An instrumental figure in pushing the obituary past Victorian-era formal constraints, Fox produces features-style write-ups of her subjects whether they\u2019re ubiquitous public figures, comparatively unknown men and women whose inventions have changed the world, or suicidal poets. (More on those below.)
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I caught up with Fox in the Upper West Side caf\u00e9 where she\u2019s written two books, <\/em>Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind and <\/em>The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code, the latter of which was published in paperback earlier this year<\/em>. She was remarkably jovial and eager to clarify what it\u2019s like to write about the dead every day. We spoke about the history of the obituary, her love of English eccentrics, and how it feels to call a living person in preparation for his or her eventual death. <\/em><\/p>\n

Does the work you do change the way you think about death?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This work does skew your worldview a bit. We all watch old movies with an eye toward who\u2019s getting on in age. I watch the Oscars memorial presentation and sit there going, Did him, did her, didn\u2019t do that one. For obit writers, the whole world is necessarily divided into the dead and the pre-dead. That\u2019s all there is.<\/p>\n

How did you end up in the obituaries department?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d never planned for a career in obits. The child has not yet been born that comes home from school clutching a composition that says, When I grow up, I want to be an obituary writer. I started as an editor at the Times Book Review<\/em>. It was wonderful to be around books and people that love books, but the job itself was copyediting. I was afraid that all they\u2019d be able to put on my tombstone was \u201cShe Changed Fifty-Thousand Commas into Semicolons.\u201d I started contributing freelance to the obituary section and ended up getting pulled in as a full-time writer.<\/p>\n

How is your section different from other news sections at the paper?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ninety-five percent of our job is writing daily obits on deadline. It\u2019s impossible to have an advance written for all the pre-dead who we hope to cover, so we usually have to phone someone up to ask about a person or a subject we don\u2019t know much about. Recently, one of my colleagues was heard running around the office going, Does anyone know anything about exotic chickens?! It\u2019s that sort of thing. Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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