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Early years and education. Fariña was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the son of an Irish mother, Theresa Crozier, and a Cuban father of Galician origin, also named Richard Fariña. He grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University, starting out as an engineering major, but later ...
The JFK assassination is for another post and another time (maybe during the group read of TCOL49) but here is the section on Fariña: Pynchon's college friend Richard Fariña died in April, 1966, in a motorcycle accident.
1 de oct. de 2023 · Bob Dylan survived his motorcycle accident in July that same year, Richard Fariña was killed at age 29 in his just three months previous. The two products of the folk scene had traveled on parallel paths for a few years before that, Fariña marrying 17-year old Mimi Baez, writer Thomas Pynchon was his best man – and he and Dylan ...
1 de may. de 2016 · Video: 'Mimi and Richard Farina Bold Marauder'. (Saturday, April 30, 1966, evening PDT) — American folksinger and novelist Richard Fariña, 29, was killed in a motorcycle accident today in Carmel Valley Village, California, after a book-signing party for his first novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.
11 de sept. de 2017 · Tragically, he died at 29 from a motorcycle accident, two days after Been Down So Long was published. Tom Pynchon, a friend of Fariña’s, famously described Been Down So Long as “coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players in perfect pitch.”
29 de abr. de 2016 · That Fariña will in fact be dead six hours after he leaves that signing—killed in full zoom, as it were, in a motorcycle crash on the Carmel Highway—is of course tragic and inconceivable: not just an unforeseeable tragedy but an unseeable one, a darkness that refuses to take shape no matter how hard you squint. * Me, I knew nothing about it.
1 de may. de 1996 · Richard Fariña was killed in a motorcycle accident in Carmel, California, on April 30, 1966-two days after the publication of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. A posthumous collection...
