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

In honor of the great magazine editor Lewis Lapham, who died a year ago yesterday, who gave us @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social and the modern @harpers.bsky.social, here is Annie Dillard’s long-lost tribute.
(Slightly edited to make it fit Bsky. Longer version on Instagram.)
#LewisLapham #AnnieDillard

🎨Edward Burra's "Composition Collage" 📰 1929 #atheism #atheist #LewisHLapham #LewisLapham #myth #mythology

Can you read as well as a ten-year-old? Adults in rich countries are less literate than they were a decade ago. That requires attention

No surprise here.

Where have you gone, #HLMenken
#LewisLapham turns his lonely eyes to you

Can you read as well as a ten-year-old?
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From The Economist

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I can still smell his Parliament cigarettes when I read one of his essays. Apropos that he died in the eternal city of Rome…
#lewislapham #sanfrancisco #essays #renaissanceman

The End of an Era Remembering Lewis Lapham

The death of Lewis Lapham is the end of a chapter in political journalism. His critical eye and fearless prose dissected the facade of American politics. Now, more than ever, we need voices like his. #LewisLapham #PoliticalCommentary #EndOfAnEra

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Hitting The Links: 7/28/24 We've got a whole ton of links, new books by past guests, the weirdness of Heraclitus, my return to running, and more!

New linky newsletter is out! I get weirded out by Heraclitus, get back to running, & give you a ton of links by/re #LewisLapham, #DmitrySamarov, @christopherbrown.bsky.social, #EvanRail, #BarbAndStar, Gorilla screen time, misplaced astronauts, & more, so GO READ buttondown.email/vmspod/archi...

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