The prototype of non-reciprocal discourse is a book by a dead author.

Nor is she the only dead author whose books continue to earn money.

"With the dead authors it worked all right," she said.

You know, contacting the minds of dead authors through a medium or something like that.

"The magazine doesn't exist anymore and probably the author's dead."

Though Hannah likes the play, she is really interested in producing it because its dead author "would get instant audience recognition."

Texts by dead authors have trouble making their way into this new world.

The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead.

"We want them to realize that it's not some ancient text that's dead by a dead author."