Obit watch: January 8, 2021.

I started working on this earlier this morning, but this is breaking just now: Tommy Lasorda. ESPN. No LAT, because you basically can’t read anything without a subscription and your ad-blocker disabled.

Neil Sheehan, author (A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam) and journalist.

“Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers”.

It was a story he had chosen not to tell — until 2015, when he sat for a four-hour interview, promised that this account would not be published while he was alive.

NYT obit for William Link.

Eric Jerome Dickey, novelist.

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