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Remembering Henry Bromell

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I met the screenwriter and novelist Henry Bromell, born on this date in 1947, through Tillie Olsen in 1973.

Remembering James Alan McPherson

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I first met Jim McPherson when he was twenty-five to my twenty-six. I’d read none of Jim’s work and had no idea that he’d published in the Atlantic, had studied with Alan Lebowitz, been mentored by Edward Weeks, and was finishing his first collection, Hue and Cry.