He was a lovely man -- dedicated to excellence but without a hint of intellectual snobbery. We asked him to review the video game L.A. Noire once for Saturday Review (among other things) and he was so engaged and intrigued by that way of telling a story. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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John Carey obituary: literary critic
Witty, eclectic and sometimes scathing scholar and reviewer who held sacred cows in little respect, dies aged 91