What the critics have said

Thank you so much for sending me a copy of Storied Streets.  It is a splendid volume -- text, layout, selection of photographs, research -- tout.  Would you be kind enough to pass on my congratulations to Bryan Demchinsky and Elaine Kalman Naves?  Not they need them.

-Mavis Gallant, personal letter.  click to see the original letter.

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Elaine, with co-editor, Bryan Demchinsky, at the launch of Joel Yanofsky’s posthumous memoir, How to Move on. (Véhicule Press, 2025.) Pictured on the far right is Yanofsky’s widow, Cynthia Davis. Photo by Jennifer Varkonyi

How To Move On: An Unfinished Memoir of Loss, Love, and Surviving Your Family

Elaine and Bryan fulfilled a deathbed promise to Joel to complete his memoir of love and loss.

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