Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 5/20/12: Social media abuzz over the death of recent Yale graduate Marina Keegan. The first cruel paragraphs of Marina Keegan's obituary trickled onto my Facebook news feed at 2:30 Sunday morning. Wayland Woman Dies in Dennis Car Crash a link to the Boston Globe Metro Desk blog reported. The story announced that Ms. Keegan on Saturday had died when the 1997 Lexus ES300 in which she was riding careened into a guardrail and rolled over twice on a stretch of highway on Cape Cod known as Suicide Alley. The driver of the vehicle survived. Route 6 eastbound was blocked for two hours, police said. Two friends had shared the link before I went to sleep. Ms. Keegan had graduated from Yale University a week before her death. As someone who entered Yale with Ms. Keegan in 2008, I was stunned. I knew Ms. Keegan only from her byline in the Yale Daily News. Memories of her personal essays, bare and honest, made my heart race, my stomach mourn. She was set to start a job with The New Yorker in June. As with others lost too early, I thought, the world would be deprived tragically of Ms. Keegan's wit and wisdom. But on Sunday evening, a surprising post popped up on Facebook.

Fox News 5/31/12: Musical by late Yale coed reportedly headed to New York festival | Fox News. A folk rock musical written by a Yale University graduate who died just days after her commencement may reportedly have a life in the theater. The Hartford Courant reports that money is being raised through a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to produce “Independents” by Marina Keegan, 22. The goal is to raise $5,000 or more to be able to produce the musical in August at the New York International Fringe Festival. The campaign has raised $3,400 from 65 backers thus far. The deadline is July 13, the newspaper reports. See Marina and her collaborators talk about the show here:

Yahoo News 5/29/12: Marina Keegan: Yale grad’s final essay gets new life after writer’s death. A 22-year-old Yale graduate, Marina Keegan, who penned her life's lessons in a final column for the Yale Daily News, died just days after commencement. But the words of her work, "The Opposite of Loneliness," have lived on. The Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on her way to a vacation house on Cape Cod when the driver, Michael Gocksch, lost control of the car. Gocksch survived, but Keegan was pronounced dead on the scene. The young writer was already making a name for herself in the literary world. She had published stories in the New York Times and had a job with the New Yorker she was about to start.

WHDH 5/30/12: Wayland woman leaves lasting legacy after fatal crash. A Massachusetts woman is leaving a lasting legacy after a tragic car accident last week. Marina Keegan was with her boyfriend just days after their graduation from Yale when their car crashed, killing Keegan. Flowers and condolences graced the front steps of the Wayland home where Marina Keegan lived with her brothers and parents. She died in a car crash on Cape Cod last weekend. Her promising future was crushed just one week after graduating from Yale.

Wayland Patch 5/30/12: Marina Keegan's Lasting Footprint. For someone with only 22 short years, Marina Keegan put together a body of work that stretches to wide corners. The Patch has collected some of the content they located, and invites readers to add links.

Glamour 5/30/12: If Marina Keegan's Story Broke Your Heart This Weekend, Here's How You Can Support Her Work. Her name is Marina Keegan, and as you may have read over the weekend, she was a Yale 2012 grad and breathtakingly talented young writer who served as a columnist at the Yale Daily News. Just days before she was due to move to Brooklyn and take a job at The New Yorker, Marina died in a car accident near Cape Cod over the holiday weekend. She was 22 years old. In the past day, I've talked to and exchanged emails with dozens of women who, like me, felt knocked right down by this story. I strongly recommend taking the time to read both her final piece, on leaving the comforting cocoon of college, and this piece, on the pressures we all feel to define what we want and succeed in getting it without delay.

LA Times 5/29/12: Marina Keegan: A Yale grad made the most of her short life. – latimes.com. News briefs can be cruel. Not because of what they say, but because of what they don't. The Boston Globe ran an item Saturday headlined “Wayland woman dies in Dennis car crash.” It was breaking news, but not unusual. The Globe’s metro desk regularly runs tragedies in brief: struck pedestrian, fatal motorcycle accident. This one told of Marina Keegan, 22, who died when the car she was riding in drifted off the road, hit a guardrail, veered back over the road and rolled over at least twice. The driver of the 1997 Lexus ES300 survived. The accident backed up traffic for nearly a mile, the Globe noted. This was the news. What the Globe didn’t mention, what wasn't news at the time, was that Keegan was a writer. A pretty good one. She had just graduated from Yale University. And one of the last things she ever wrote was about the importance of living life to its fullest.