RIP, Tony Hillerman

Tony Hiller­man died yes­ter­day at the age of 83. He was a mas­ter­ful sto­ry­teller of the West, famous for his tales of the Navajo reser­va­tion. I enjoyed read­ing his books, often times handed down to me from my grand­fa­ther and father. He wrote sto­ries about the mys­ti­cism of the Nava­jos that didn’t rely on blood and ter­ror. They were often times cere­bral and I’ll miss read­ing his novels.

5 Comments

  • That’s a real shame. He’ll be missed.

    Thank you for post­ing about it. Haven’t seen any men­tion in my uber-casual news aggregating.

  • Oh.. and where is your pub­lic announce­ment about NaNo and your web badge? Say­ing you’re going to do it is only one part. You can’t fully expe­ri­ence the humil­i­a­tion unless you declare it to a lot of peo­ple and hang it all out there for the world to see.

    Get a move on.

    (I write this as I am sit­ting in front of a blank page and feel­ing the dis­tinct sen­sa­tion of drown­ing on air.)

  • Scotch Drinker wrote:

    It’s com­ing. I just signed up after much thought and beer last night. Mostly beer. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned while drink­ing beer, it’s ok to make dumb deci­sions but it’s not OK to do any­thing with images on my blog. :-)

  • Where is the “I posted these while under the influ­ence” pic­ture section?

  • Scotch Drinker wrote:

    Haha, did you really think you could catch me on a Sat­ur­day morn­ing drink­ing at 9 AM and slip up to tell you where the evi­dence is? You mis­un­der­es­ti­mate me.

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