Snooze
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:17:25 -0400
In answer to a couple of questions, I am sending this out to say that
yes, the bananafish list is somehow still alive, but that it's been a
quiet few days. In case you've been receiving little or no mail,
that is because there appear to have been no submissions recently.
On the other hand, if you HAVE sent messages in during the last few
days, please let me know directly -- it's always possible that
there's a subtle problem lurking under the hood of a machine
somewhere.
It's funny that in this world of too much background noise, some of
us get unnerved by silence.
--tim
OBSalinger: The New Yorker just completed yet another physical move.
They had moved from their old building to one across the street, but
since they were sucked up by Conde Nast, it was only a matter of time
before they were "consolidated" with the other magazines CN owns.
Last week was moving day. There was a picture in the NY Times of
files being relocated, and I couldn't help wondering whether any
contained material from that long-silent writer of short stories we
know and admire. The saddest part was that, in contrast to the old
days of the magazine, the new one is short on office space, so some
staff writers are forced to work from home -- long gone are the days
when a JDS could drop in and find an empty room and typewriter to
work on a piece that needed finishing. There is something infinitely
depressing about that, I think.