The New Yorker Stories

In 1928, just after he published his first novel Strange Fugitive in New York, Morley Callaghan wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: #x0022;Here is something I thought you might be able to tell me about. Do you think The New Yorkerwould be a good magazine for my stories? They have never printed fiction before, but are going to start with that story of mine called #x0022;An Escapade.#x0022; Perkins replied: #x0022;As for The New YorkerI think it has a very excellent type of circulation from your standpoint and ours...#x0022;Through the thirties, through the Depression, Callaghan did an astonishing thing: he kept himself and his family alive by writing short stories that Hemingway compared to Joyce, fiction that brought praise from Wyndham Lewis and Edmund Wilson and led the New York Timesto say, #x0022;If there is a better story writer in the world we don't know where he is.#x0022;