{"id":7498,"date":"2010-01-21T04:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2010-01-21T04:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:50:39","slug":"robert-b-parker-1932-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/21\/robert-b-parker-1932-201\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert B. Parker, 1932 – 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnother sad death to report is that of Robert B. Parker<\/a>, creator of the Boston private detective Spenser (whose first name was never given, but who said that his last name was spelled with an \u2019s\u2019, \u201clike the poet.\u201d) It\u2019s appropriate to pay tribute to Parker on this blog, both because Frye liked reading detective stories, and because Parker had a PhD in English from Northeastern. Several of his novels feature academic satire. He died at his desk, a writer to the last moment.<\/p>\n

Steven Axelrod\u2019s tribute at Salon.com (\u201dHow the crime novelist taught me to stand up for myself and taught my son about the carnal pleasures of reading\u201d) can be found\u00a0 here<\/a>.\u00a0 Axelrod\u2019s piece is noteworthy for the way it suggests the liberating possibilities inherent in popular fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another sad death to report is that of Robert B. Parker, creator of the Boston private detective Spenser (whose first name was never given, but who said that his last name was spelled with an \u2019s\u2019, \u201clike the poet.\u201d) It\u2019s appropriate to pay tribute to Parker on this blog, both because Frye liked reading detective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-popular-culture"],"yoast_head":"\nRobert B. 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