Roger Ebert, Four Years After Losing His Voice

Esquire’s wonderful piece on Roger Ebert, one of my favorite writers. “He begins to write about more than movies…. The existence of an afterlife, the beauty of a full bookshelf, his liberalism and atheism and alcoholism, the health-care debate, Darwin, memories of departed friends and fights won and lost — more than five hundred thousand words of inner monologue have poured out of him, five hundred thousand words that probably wouldn’t exist had he kept his other voice.”

Go read it!

Link: http://salvator.me/site/pub/roger_ebert_four_years_after_losing_his_voice

Article date: Tue, February 16, 2010 - 3:34:34

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