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Doris Grumbach

Doris Grumbach is the author of seven novels, six books of memoir, and a biography of Mary McCarthy. This essay is part of a larger memoir, Downhill Almost All the Way.

A Whole Day Nearer Now

A Whole Day Nearer Now

But all life’s passion not quite spent

by Doris Grumbach | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Remains of My Days

The Remains of My Days

Fond and fading memories of a robust literary life

by Doris Grumbach | Monday, February 29, 2016
The View from 90

The View from 90

Even when those in my generation have reached a state of serenity, wisdom, and relative comfort, what we face can hardly be called the golden years

by Doris Grumbach | Wednesday, March 02, 2011

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Good Thing Going

by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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