Daniel Shapiro – Big City Lit

Walking with Gerard Caliendo

Mar 6, 2023Daniel ShapiroWinter 2023, Winter 2023 FictionDaniel Shapiro, Fiction

by Daniel Shapiro —Shulamith He used to carry my books every morning on our way to school. He was slender with dark, wavy hair that he combed back with pomade, and he was always neatly dressed. We must have cut quite a couple—him in pullover and long pants, me in my favorite emerald skirt and

Afternoon Rhapsody

Mar 6, 2023Daniel ShapiroWinter 2023, Winter 2023 FictionDaniel Shapiro, Fiction

by Daniel Shapiro (February 12, 1924) —Esther Will and I got out of the taxi on Forty-Second Street, in front of Aeolian Hall. It was close to three o’clock. I couldn’t help but feel excitement about the coming performance but maybe something else, too. I took in the atmosphere, the late sun, the clang of