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Her name was Arline. She was my father’s mother. She died in 1949 when my father was 16. We knew very lit­tle about her grow­ing up. In the early 1980’s, after my grand­fa­ther died, a let­ter arrived at the house from my father’s aunt Marie who was six years younger than her sis­ter. My par­ents were […]

I’ve been won­der­ing if I have an old rejec­tion let­ter from Grand Street some­where in my files. Ben Son­nen­berg, the founder of Grand Street, died this month. He was a young man with an inher­i­tance who wanted to read good writ­ing, so he started a mag­a­zine. I was so excited when the first issue came out.  […]