Andrew, it's impossible for me to express as descriptively as your Dad how much I enjoyed his Sunday morning spots. I never clicked past him if he was on screen. Reading your eulogy, I can hear his voice speaking those favored words.

I miss having him around to remind us of what is important and beautiful and tragic and amusing.

Thanks for sharing this with us. Best wishes to you and your family.

Patricia

I can tell you've inherited your dad's love of words.

I remember reading most of Faulkner's works, and a word I'd never heard spoken aloud-- immutable-- appeared frequently. I always associate that word with Faulkner.

Writers should love words-- the language as a whole, but individual words too.

. . . for repeatedly using the phrase "vampire capitalism" on the CBS Sunday Morning.

I really miss those spots. Without them the show is just a little more brainy than Parade magazine.

Just wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you for posting this -- a potent act of filial channeling, with fitting dollops of both championing and challenging!

I loved your father's reviews. I always read those books to which he gave high praise; I was never disappointed. He was a gift to all of us.

I enjoyed your father's essays, and yours too.

I haven't thought about Tareytons for decades. Or Pall Malls either. I think I grew up in a class that didn't presume to strive for that level of couth. There were Lucky Strikes and Marlboros in my neighborhood, and Kools for those embracing the urban lifestyle across the tracks.

Thanks again.

that will move me to read more of his work. Beautifully done!

That's lovely.

I can offer no higher praise than to define this as "reading that inspires writing." Well done. (And I am both confounded and pleased when I have to reach for the dictionary in the middle of anyone's writing.)

Andrew,

Your tribute executed through the John Leonard project is splendid.

Fun Gal

I remember him using this word in one of his TV commentaries years ago. It struck me then, and it stuck in my mind. You could tell that he just loved saying it.

In reading "Private Lives in the Imperial City" I learned as much about language, thought, writing, and life as I have ever learned from one source. Many years ago I was lucky enough to find the book on a remainder pile, and I bought half a dozen copies so I'd be able to give it as gifts and also never be without a copy. I didn't read much more of Mr Leonard's work, and I only saw him once or twice on television, but I will cherish some of the images and the words from "Private Lives" forever.

I admit that I had not heard of your father until I heard of his death. This eulogy has interested me in his work.

But I also want to say that his greatest work is helping to rear a son whose wide ranging interests match his own.

As I noted in my posting after your first article, you honor your father by exercising your wonderful curiosity and talent. I reveled in reading this eulogy. I shall read ever more of your dad's work wherever I may find it. Again, your dad undoubtedly would love your work as well as you and, maybe, does. Liz

Wonderful, Andrew. Thank you.

Andrew, you are your father's son. A splendid tribute which I immensely enjoyed reading. To use a phrase your father never would, I loved him to pieces, and never passed by anything he wrote whenever I came across it, and never missed his spots on CBS Sunday Morning if I could help it. He was an eloquent voice the likes of which is heard too rarely, and today almost not at all. He is missed.

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