Isaiah Sheffer, founder of Symphony Space, the "vibrant, eclectic institution known for its broadcasts of actors reading short stories" (Selected Shorts, produced by WNYC for NPR), died last Friday, the New York Times reported. He was 76. Sheffer also created "Bloomsday on Broadway," an annual reading of James Joyce's Ulysses which has been held for more than three decades.
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Poet Jack Gilbert died yesterday, "50 years after his first book appeared--Views of Jeopardy, which won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize--and just months after the publication of his Collected Poems," Slate reported. Gilbert had been the subject of a compelling piece in the Los Angeles Times earlier this week. He was 87.
