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Douglas Silver

Douglas Silver’s fiction has appeared in The Sun, The Cincinnati Review, New England Review, the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, Crazyhorse, Callaloo, and elsewhere. An Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient and former writer-in-residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Silver serves as executive director of Gotham Food Pantry, a nonprofit that works to make food justice a way of life throughout New York City.

Food

Fall 2023

Taste

By Douglas Silver

In my twenties, I proposed to a woman who declined to marry me. Instead she gave me the recipe for her grandmother’s hollandaise sauce and told me our relationship was […]