It came out in 1975.
He was a supremely elegant stylist, what's sometimes called a writer's writer.
He often even lamented sometimes that he was praised so often for
writing such beautiful sentences, but boy, are they good.
Now for the discussion boards this week,
we'll put up his link to his interview with the Paris Review.
You recall that there was a Paris Review interview earlier this segment with
John Updike where he talks about Mark Twain.
For now, let's look at a story that James Salter published in the New Yorker
that's going to be part of this week's work at home.
Last Night,
his very short story that we'll read this week came out in 2002 in the New Yorker.
Somehow, it's the only story of his they ever published.
But in the New Yorker's fiction podcast, you can listen to the writer
Tom McGuane reading it and talking to the New Yorker's fiction editor,
Deborah Triesman, about that wonderful story.
We'll put that up in the discussion board and ask you to look at it.
All of the New Yorker's fiction podcasts are available anyone in the world to
download and listen to, and we'll also get you the text of that story to read.