More on Lewis Lapham

This is becoming a fan blog, and why the hell not?

Friend Greg Connors pointed me to this tender and perceptive appreciation of the editor and publisher Lewis Lapham. Writer Elias Altman brought dear Lewis back to me so precisely, I actually heard his smoker’s baritone again. A lovely piece of writing you should read.

But it also brought back something that I felt was Lewis’ central flaw. Lewis was fierc…