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From: Kevin Burns <kevbur@Muze.com>
Oh for goodness sake. The tone of the comments about Roger Angell almost
tick me off. Why should he mention his parentage--most people who have
been around a while are aware of it. Second, why is he pigeoholed in
some minds as a sports writer and why is it suggested that he "stick to
baseball"? He's a writer. Period. And a successful one in more ways than
some of us subscribers, perhaps. Sheesh! He's also an accomplished
editor--most recently of "Nothing But You: Love Stories from the New
Yorker" which includes Nabokov's "The Circle". Sheesh again! Anyway, I
challenge someone to look up old issues of the New Yorker for his annual
end-of-the-year "Greetings, Friends" poem--there has to be at least one
mention of Nabokov. Guaranteed.
Oh for goodness sake. The tone of the comments about Roger Angell almost
tick me off. Why should he mention his parentage--most people who have
been around a while are aware of it. Second, why is he pigeoholed in
some minds as a sports writer and why is it suggested that he "stick to
baseball"? He's a writer. Period. And a successful one in more ways than
some of us subscribers, perhaps. Sheesh! He's also an accomplished
editor--most recently of "Nothing But You: Love Stories from the New
Yorker" which includes Nabokov's "The Circle". Sheesh again! Anyway, I
challenge someone to look up old issues of the New Yorker for his annual
end-of-the-year "Greetings, Friends" poem--there has to be at least one
mention of Nabokov. Guaranteed.