National Endowment for the Arts: A Conversation with Ray Bradbury
io9 – First reported the news
The New York Times – obit
Slate – recommending this Bradbury documentary
The New Yorker (2012) – Take Me Home by Ray Bradbury
The Atlantic – Ray Bradbury on Facing Rejection … and Being Inspired by Snoopy
The Paris Review (late 1970s & 2010) – Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203
NPR (2000) – Interview with Terri Gross
TIME (2010) – Q&A: Ray Bradbury
Flavorwire – Tribute to Ray Bradbury
Los Angeles Times – Author lifted fantasy to literary heights
HuffPost – Remembering Bradbury’s influence on cinema and television
The Guardian – Neil Gaiman remembers Bradbury
BoingBoing – Bradbury at NASA reading “If Only We Had Been Taller”
GOOD – Why Supporting Your Local Library Is the Ultimate Homage to Ray Bradbury
The White House – President Obama on Ray Bradbury
Byliner – One of twelve short stories Bradbury wrote for Esquire
Keynote address of The Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, 2001 [via Brain Pickings]
Letters of Note
I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.
Be Your Own Self. Love What You Love.
Tweets
The world has lost one of the best writers it’s ever known, and one of the dearest men to my heart. RIP Ray Bradbury (Ol’ Gramps).
— Danny Karapetian (@dannykarapetian) June 6, 2012
RIP Ray Bradbury. You opened more minds and touched more lives than you’ll ever know. bit.ly/LxTTK9
— BookCrossing (@BookCrossing) June 6, 2012
RIP Ray Bradbury You made Mars, time travel & Illustrated Men more real than reality for a 14 year old me. #RIPRay
— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) June 6, 2012
Poet-king Ray Bradbury, who wrote not with ink but dandelion wine, is off adventuring again. We’ll miss you. Shoot a dinosaur for us, Ray.
— Joe Hill (@joe_hill) June 6, 2012
Ray Bradbury has died. “The Pedestrian” is one of the most famous of all short stories. Read it here. Uncanny prophecy. bit.ly/NhrFrh
— Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) June 6, 2012
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” -Ray Bradbury. Our favorite quotes from the legend: ow.ly/boNF0
— Writer’s Digest (@WritersDigest) June 6, 2012
“Headlife” by @MargaretAtwood byl.nr/KZIFfl A wicked new short story from #ShadowShow, a Ray Bradbury-inspired anthology @Sam__Weller
— Byliner (@TheByliner) May 31, 2012
A standing ovation for Mr Ray Bradbury. Our imagination will be dimmer without him.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) June 6, 2012
Guillermo del Toro – “I feel lonelier. The world is vast and barren: Bradbury was one of the titans of fantastic fiction and a unique voice in American literature. The lyricism of his prose influenced many generations across the globe. A humanist before anything else, Bradbury nurtured my youthful hopes, my flights of fancy. His soul was gentle but his imagination was fierce.”
