Re: Famous Folks/Flannery O'Connor Salinger's Short Story equal?


Subject: Re: Famous Folks/Flannery O'Connor Salinger's Short Story equal?
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 20:35:34 EDT


That's pretty cool, will :).

Jim

Will Hochman wrote:
>
> It's amazing what a tuxedo can do...last night, I was among two
> thousand or so "folks" at the White House Correspondents' Association
> Dinner. I got to talk briefly with Colin Powell, Ron Page, Al Gore's
> campaign manager( Ms Brazil?) and a few other swells in the crowd. I
> met Ozzie Osborne and he signed my invitation, and I got pictures of
> Walter Cronkite and Dr. Ruth who actually gave my wife advice when she
> was getting fitted for her wedding dress almost exactly 13 years ago.
> Dr. Ruth didn't remember my wife (and she didn't remember the advice!)
> but Dr. Ruth still uses the same dress maker (her hems must eternally
> be shortened...she's not an inch over four feet tall but her smile
> illuminates like a tall lighthouse!).
>
> This wonderful little train trip to Washington even included finding a
> first edition of Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Stories which I
> think is the only single author collection of short stories equal to
> Salinger's Nine. I probably paid too much and had to plead
> "anniversary present" to my wife to get it, but her stories really
> mean a great deal to me...I'm not exactly sure how they connect with
> Salingers' stories and why I think both O'Connor and JDS are the best
> masters of short story writing in their time...I'm gonna work on that
> one... but for now the book goes in the same special book cabinet with
> my best Salinger volumes. It's good to be home, will
> --
> Will Hochman
>
> Associate Professor of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
> http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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