About “The Fiction Question,” Stephen Osborne’s Letter to Subscribers enclosed in Geist 65 (and the thunderous response to it in Letters, No. 66): I love my subscription to The New Yorker, a gift from a friend, but yes! I do get that sinking feeling when the summer fiction issue slides through the letter slot. Oh no, not another one—last year’s is still in a pile on the floor. Gee, I really must read all the stories as my mate bought them for me. But I am more likely to take a serious look at the one piece of fiction by somebody I never heard of in a normal issue. It’s overwhelming when so many are lined up like dominoes.
London, UK
