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I dunno, I don't think I'd really give a shit what the NYT thinks about my body of work, so long as I'm satisfied with it. Who knows how Barth would feel.

But Barth was famous for his short stories.

(Maybe if NYT had to publish an obituary to Matsuo Bashõ, they would piously limit themselves to three lines.)

> If I am John Barth and I find out my NYTimes obituary is 242 words long

Are you looking at an earlier version? The one I'm looking at is about 1800 words.

I think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs.

> I think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs.

It's common for articles on breaking events (such as celebrity deaths) to begin with a short stub, and then be expanded with a full version later. Yesterday I actually saw a note ("updated at X:XX PM EST") although today that's gone. I'm not that intimately acquainted with NYT style, but perhaps that's their indication that this is the "final" version (ie, the one published in print).