Don Zacharia’s personal essay, “My Legacy,” which appeared in the Kenyon Review won a Pushcart Prize. Simon and Schuster published his novel, The Match Trick in 1982.
Fiction
Winter 1987
The Inheritance
In 1959, when my wife’s grandmother died, I was thirty years old, made $110 a week, had two children, and lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Eastchester, New York. The […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1985
My Legacy
For many years my father was a communist, an atheist, and a great intellectual. When other boys my age were being slipped crisp five dollar bills for bar mitzvah presents, […]
Weekend Reads
The Inheritance
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1987, Vol. IX, No.1 In 1959, when my wife’s grandmother died, I was thirty years old, made $110 a week, had two children, […]