Ben Sonnenberg -- Obituary

Ben Sonnenberg, the founder and sole guiding light of the late literary publication Grand Street, passed away Thursday. You can appraise the NY Times obit of Sonnenberg for yourselves.

A number of issues are implicit in the obit. The article's last paragraph, which follows, raises a number of them.

“I printed only what I liked; never once did I publish an editorial statement; I offered no writers’ guidelines; and I stopped when I couldn’t turn the pages anymore.”