Subject: Famous Folks/Flannery O'Connor Salinger's Short Story equal?
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 18:08:18 EDT
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 HochmanAssociate 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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