a new "New Yorker" story NOT by JDS

An astute subscriber and reader on this list mentioned to me
privately, and I concurred, that the story in the current New
Yorker, called "Wes Amerigo's Giant Fear," by David Schickler,
is one of the finer stories to make its way around in quite some
time.

If you are somewhere where you cannot buy the magazine, you can
get the story on the magazine's web site -- but hey, it would be
nice to show a little support and buy the thing for the couple
of bucks it costs, if you can spare the change.

Schickler is the author of a collection called KISSING IN
MANHATTAN, which is (yes, I'll go out on that limb) one of the
finest collections of stories I've seen published in the last
five or ten years. I mean, I can't even NAME another collection
that moved me as much in my lifetime. (Regrettably, I cannot
claim to have been around when Hemingway published a
collection.) I've managed to read KISSING three times, and
loved it every time.

If you're looking for a writer who can adopt some mantle or
another of greatness, David Schickler is it, in my small
opinion. Read KISSING IN MANHATTAN. Read "Wes Amerigo's Giant
Fear." He's the real deal.

And yes, this message is blissfully free of Salinger content,
except that if the old man continues to get the magazine, I can
only hope he would agree.

--tim
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Received on Fri Mar 14 07:36:54 2003