An upcoming book examines what defines a life, and it’s written by a man who has spent years summarizing the lives of both notable figures and every day New Yorkers.<\/p>\n
Sam Roberts has worked as a journalist in the city for more than 50 years, writing several books and working as a correspondent for the New York Times. He has written more than 1,500 obituaries.<\/p>\n
Roberts joined “The Rush Hour” to discuss his new book “Are they Dead Yet?”, where he shares what makes an obituary and reflects on his decades-long career.<\/p>\n
“Its about people’s lives, what they’ve accomplished, how transformative they are,” Roberts said. “There are no ordinary lives, everyone has a story to tell.”<\/p>\n
“Are They Dead Yet?” releases on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upcoming book examines what defines a life, and it’s written by a man who has spent years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,21399,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,5252,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-315968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-top-stories","tag-cassidy-slamin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-rocco-vertuccio","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}