Sy Safransky
Sy Safransky is founder and editor of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
— From December 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Sy’s New York Diary
The city so easy, after all, alive for me like some lover never truly left behind, never truly known: the perfumes, the hidden places, the exquisite fears and sweet temptations of the night.
June 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Sweet Suicide
Confuse love and romance too long and you end up a suicide. Aloneness is the final, undeniable reality of life.
June 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
What Shall God Fear?
I have wanted you, wanted you, out of what? love? need? true love is not possessive, jealousy is a learned response, but oh god, how to let go? how to love you, not own you, how to let you be?
June 1974
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Sy’s Space
More jobs in the last year than I can remember, and so little sense, through it all, of any purposeful endeavor, of meaningful labor, of real work.
February 1974
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