Ahh, Buddy, you give me too much credit! I never made the direct allusion until you helped out my poor mind...I do sense a Hemingway link to Ford's work though I'm not sure why...can you say more? will On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Tim O'Connor wrote: > At 9:40 AM -0400 on 8/24/99, Will wrote: > > > Of authors currently publishing fiction today, I think Ford is > >among the > > very best. I love being in his books because his "forty something" > > narration seems intelligent and cogent to this almost 47 year old > >reader. > > When I read Ford, I sense an intelligent, fair mind guiding mine. > > ... and then: > > > BTW, Ford's most recent book, _Women with Men_ contains 3 longish > >short > > stories and may be of interest to bananafish because of the use of > >length > > in his "short stories." > > Interestingly, one of Hemingway's well-regarded collections (his > second, I think) was "Men Without Women," and I wonder how long and > hard Ford thought about that one, if at all. I mention this with the > ellipsis above because, Will, I recall you not being a > Hemingway-hater and wondered if this parallelism in the titles came > to mind when you mentioned Ford's most recent book. > > --tim > >