TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Marilyn
TI  - The dead beat: : lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries
SN  - 9780739487327
U1  - 070.44992 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - Obituaries
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-247); I walk the dead beat; A wake of obituarists; Name that bit; The mighty and the fallen of New York; Now you know; Ordinary Joe; The egalitarians; Tributes; The four horsemen of the apocalypse; Googling death; The obit writer's obit
ER  -