Poetic Obituaries: The first issue of Grand Street--

named after the street on the Lower East Side where Mr. [Ben] Sonnenberg's parents grew up--featured excerpts from the novelist Glenway Wescott's Paris journals, as well as articles, stories and poems by Ted Hughes, Alice Munro, James Salter, John Hollander, Northrop Frye and W.S. Merwin.

Later issues included political reporting by Amy Wilentz and Christopher Hitchens and the kind of offbeat matchup of writer and subject that Mr. Sonnenberg loved to instigate. For example, he commissioned the jazz critic Gary Giddins to profile Jack Benny.

from The New York Times: Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73

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