Esther Cohen
Esther Cohen lives in New York City and has written one novel, No Charge for Looking (Schocken Books). Her story in this issue is from an unpublished collection titled Love Details.
— From March 1999
Fiction
Japanese Food
My friend Howard doesn’t want me to know that he’s dying. He hates all the movies and books and plays about AIDS, especially what happens at the end. He says they turn something real into a sappy, pointless melodrama. But that’s not why he hasn’t told me.
March 1999
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