Joseph D. Brisben

I just found out that Joe died in January. He and I were vague friends at Chicago, and I got to know him really only once I went to a class reunion. Then we became real friends. We saw each other at reunions, corresponded, and got together in New York when he was here hawking his (EXCELLENT) books. When I was working in St Louis, I went to visit him in Iowa City with our mutual friends Mem and Leon. He put us up in his house, and friends of his came over in the evening and played and we all...