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Four Memories of Giancarlo DiTrapano
Giancarlo DiTrapano, the fearless founder, publisher, and editor of Tyrant Books, died this past week at the age of forty-seven. Fiercely independent and loyal to his writers through and through, he...
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Remembering Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm and Katie Roiphe in conversation at NYU, 2012. Photo courtesy of Roiphe. In one of my last email exchanges with Janet Malcolm, in one of the darkest parts of the pandemic, she wrote to...
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The Shuffle and the Breath: On Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones during a concert at the Royal Lawn Tennis Stadium in Stockholm, 1965. Photo: Owe Wallin. © Tobias Rostlund / Alamy Stock Photo. The drummer Charlie Watts died on...
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The Fourth Rhyme: On Stephen Sondheim
a letter to the author from Stephen Sondheim. In the late fifties, Stephen Sondheim, who died last week aged ninety-one, performed a song from the not-yet-finished musical Gypsy for Cole Porter,...
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Flip It: A Tribute to bell hooks
Books on Orr’s bed, her “second desk.” Photo: Niela Orr. bell hooks died last month of kidney failure at age sixty-nine; she was, according to her niece, surrounded by her loved ones when she passed....
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Remembering Richard Howard
Richard Howard receiving the 2017 Hadada Award. Matteo Mobilio. Richard Howard, poet, translator, critic, and poetry editor of this magazine from 1992 to 2004, died yesterday at the age of ninety-two....
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Barry Lopez’s Darkness and Light
Barry Lopez, McKenzie River, Oregon. Photograph by David Liittschwager. Some days after Barry’s death on December 25, 2020, I pulled every book of his I owned from the shelves around my apartment and...
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In Remembrance of John Train, 1926–2022
A page from “How to Name Your Baby,” in issue no. 66. John Train, a cofounder of The Paris Review and its first managing editor—or “so-called managing editor,” as he often put it—died last month, at...
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Remembering Rebecca
Rebecca Godfrey photographed by Brigitte Lacombe, NYC, 2002. I met Rebecca Godfrey in New York City in the spring of 1999. In my memory our meeting has something to do with her first book, a novel...
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In Remembrance of Charles Simic, 1938–2022
A page from Simic’s manuscript for “The One to Worry About.” Charles Simic, a former Poet Laureate and a giant of life and literature, died on Monday at the age of eighty-four. A winner of the Pulitzer...
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