“Walter Kaplan Reads John Hersey’s Hiroshima, March 1947,” by Peter Orner
By Peter Orner
He sits in a creased maroon leather recliner with his feet flat on the rug. The book is slender, nearly weightless in his hands. The door of his tiny study is closed. He reads by the light of a lamp which sits on a dark oak desk now cluttered with a few opened books, face down.
