All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham
This remembrance first appeared in Stranger’s Guide on July 28, 2024. On July 23, 2024, the American essayist and editor Lewis H. Lapham died. Since then several beautiful obituaries have been written about the great man and I won’t attempt to repeat these, though I certainly encourage reading them. Instead I want to focus on a very particular time and place where I worked with Lewis and knew him best—the book-filled offices of his last great project, Lapham’s Quarterly. After a storied tenure