On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham You only meet a few people in your life who, like stars, exert a pull so strong that they alter its trajectory completely. I was lucky enough to enter the orbit of the legendary editor and essayist…

An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (lithub.com/on-the-remar...).

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The Pleasures of Reading, by Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis #Lapham died just after Biden dropped out and well before the US election. Dude’s timing was nearly as impressive as his prose harpers.org/archive/1975...

Lewis H. Lapham, Longtime Editor of Harper’s, Dies at 89 Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

RIP Lewis #Lapham. His writing was immaculate; his perspectives, enlightening. The way he contextualized the present by way of the past in Lapham’s Quarterly was important, and vital - I can’t recommend seeking out his work strongly enough. Required reading. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/b...

Lewis H. Lapham, Longtime Editor of Harper’s, Dies at 89 Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

“Mr. #Lapham … was a nationally respected journalist whose commentaries on politics, wars and the wealthy were disparaged by conservative critics but often likened by admirers to the satires and cultural criticisms of H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/b... #RIP #LewisLapham