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Five fittingly peculiar famous-author tributes
Geeks everywhere got a "raging brainer" (thank you, Professor Farnsworth) last week when a photo surfaced of Ray Bradbury reacting to the bubblegum-pop send-up "F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury." It's a beautiful thing to learn that one of the greatest sci-fi writers of all time lived long enough to see his own tribute — even if it was foul-mouthed and tongue-in-cheek. With that in mind, here are five other tributes to some famous authors who are no longer with us, from Douglas Adams to Kurt Vonnegut.

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Refuting Kundera »
A response to the author's claim that 'art is dying'
Milan Kundera's latest essay collection, Encounter, is at once enthusiastically exultant and outright curmudgeonly. Amid deserving praise for the composers, artists, and writers who have inspired him, the Franco-Czech writer also describes our era of so-called post-art as "a world where art is dying." In the spirit of constructive optimism, we humbly offer contemporary counterparts to Kundera's beloved artists — they may not be perfect approximations, but they are at least confronting and pushing the same boundaries.

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Published Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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