Jay Lovinger: The Yoda of Magazine Writing
Sometimes through word of a person’s death, we’re made aware of how much we missed out on by not knowing the person. Jay Lovinger was one of those people for me. News of Lovinger’s death was my introduction to the man’s legacy, and as I’ve journeyed down the bottomless rabbit hole that is the internet, the feeling of discovery is supplanted by a feeling of loss. It came upon me fast, a regret for dinners never shared, stories I’ll never hear, a mentor forever unavailable. Of course, there’s no guarantee any of those things would have ever come to pass, but now the certainty that…