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January 31, 2023

RIP Jonathan Raban

He wrote for love and money - don’t we all?

“Seafaring, quixotic and nomadic writer whose genre-defying books…”

So begins the obituary in The Times.

I loved Raban’s writing – the range of it, and the beautiful sentences. One of his early books, For Love and Money, is a collection of journalism.

I drew this snapshot of the obit as a way to spend a bit of time thinking about it, and him.

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