Michael Zimmer

I met Michael Zimmer back around 1994, a mutual friend took me to meet him down on Commerce Street; he lived just down the door from a cool little Japanese vegan joint called Sho Jin. We hung out for several hours and I never saw him again, but we exchanged gifts and he gave me a copy of a book called A Void, by the late Georges Perec, which was originally written in French with no letter "e," later translated to English the same way. It was a murder mystery. Michael informed me that the...

To family & friends of Michael Zimmer:
Michael was extremely generous to me in my aim to conduct research for a biographical account of the life of his father. He would meet with me at length to share family stories, and included me on list of invitees for gatherings at Commerce Street. I was very happy to be able to share my memories of time spent with his son, Jacob, when we lived together in a house shared by four 20-somethings in Somerville, MA. I know that the terrible tragedy of...