At 9:52 AM -0500 on 12/29/98, you wrote: > just to let you know that the fall/winter 1998 issue of bananafish: short > fiction, a nonprofit literary magazine for short stories only, is now > available at your local bookstore or direct from the publisher Congratulations, Ellen! It's time for me to renew my subscription, and I can only say to those of us on the list who are writers -- at whatever level -- that if you can afford a modest subscription, it's always a decent way to support your fellow writers and their editors and publishers. And "Bananafish" (the magazine) is certainly affordable enough that it's well worth the money spent. Unlike many other lit magazines, it doesn't simply offer the same writers you see everywhere else, which is refreshing AND encouraging. --tim o'connor