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...).

#LewisLapham #LaphamsQuarterly #Writing #Editing #Publishing #Style #Lapham #RIP

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⛵💔 “Hundreds more could’ve been saved.”
It’s a story of cold water, missed chances, and what silence sounds like after mass loss.
But the question remains: when someone’s calling—do we turn the boat around?
#Titanic #Grief #MoralCourage #CollectiveMemory #LaphamsQuarterly #Bluesky

Gold text with yellow shadow "Pennies from Heaven" between painted clouds and below, a statue of Prometheus being eaten by an eagle, in gold made from Prometheus depicted in a sculpture by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, 1762)

☁️ Pennies from Heaven
by Lewis H. Lapham
at #laphamsquarterly
The word philanthropy first appears in Western thought in the fifth century BC to denote an act of rebellion and name the crime of treason.
#Philanthropy #oligarchy

www.laphamsquarterly.org/philanthropy...