Reading the Heir of Sorrows

In praise of Robert Bingham's short stories

When I learned David Berman died in 2019, I was sitting at a table in some very bland Italian place near Union Square and the first thing that popped into my head was the song "Death of an Heir of Sorrows” from his 2001 Silver Jews album Bright Flights.

When I was summoned to the phone

I knew in my bones that you had died alone

We'd never been promised th…