Marvin Barrett
Marvin Barrett is the author of Spare Days and the forthcoming The Consolations of Age. He is a senior editor at Parabola.
— From June 1994
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
An Encounter
This afternoon, waiting for the crosstown bus at 79th and Third Avenue, leaning wearily against the shelter support — a long wait — I saw Christ.
June 1994
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