At the recent memorial for my brother-in-law Lawrence Lesser, my husband, Bobby, and his brothers spoke about Larry’s fundamental goodness. All true. But Larry was more than a loving brother, father, and husband — with a swell singing voice.
In fact, Larry was a Big Wow! Dare one say it, an American patriot.
How many graduate at the top of their class at Bronx Science High, win a Regents Scholarship, ace it into Cornell University (studying literature with Vladimir Nabokov), and become editor of The Cornell Writer, where he was the first to publish Thomas Pynchon?