The Ones We Lost

For the length of a season, it seemed like we were losing all the good ones.  They say death comes in threes, but halfway into 2012, it felt more like sixes and sevens.  Each time we opened the paper to the obituary section or logged on to Twitter, it seemed like another legendary writer had passed on to that Final Draft in the Sky.

Bradbury.  Sendak.  Fuentes.

Every week, it seemed like another pillar of the literary community was crumbling.  Some of the deaths we'd se...