life Archives - Marc Grossberg

Living In The Now – My Magical Mystery Tour: Tales of Manhattan

By Marc Grossberg | June 21, 2020 |

TALES OF MANHATTAN July 1, 2015 Wednesday (Please read Part 1 here.) Standing outside in the line for a taxi, I talked to an attractive black woman. She said she was a storyteller and she worked with The Moth. I said I listened to The Moth on NPR in Houston. She told me The Moth…

From Draft to Publication: How THE BEST PEOPLE Came To Be

By Marc Grossberg | November 14, 2019 |

How did THE BEST PEOPLE come to be? Well, Marc Grossberg didn’t always intend to be a lawyer. When he was just 16 years old, he aspired to be a novelist. As he read more books about lawyers, especially Clarence Darrow’s Attorney for the Damned, he started thinking that maybe law might be an interesting…

What it Was Really Like to Have Polio

By Marc Grossberg | October 3, 2019 |

Diagnosis: Polio In the summer of 1953, when I was 12 and a half years old, I got pretty sick and had a very high fever. Our family doctor came to the house and the next thing I knew I was in an operating room. The last face I saw before my spinal tap was…