Side By Side

Side by Side"It still seems hard to believe," the young man said from the chair next to mine. "Saul Kessler ... the author of Letters from Miriam ... after all these years." Doubt flickered across his glowing features. "You don't think he'll mind? Your bringing me along?""No," I said. "I don't think he'll mind."The young man's name was Joel Carson, a summer student at NYU whom I'd met the week before at Rienzi's, in the Village. He'd been looking...