Jean Shepherd Actually Liked Something ?
I was listening to the Jean Shepherd (K2ORS) show on WOR from October 1, 1962 (about the last 45 minutes) found here (Thanks Max!) :
https://wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=67285
As Shep often did, he touched and bounced around on zillions of topics but in this clip:
you can hear him recommend a John Cheever story called A Vision Of The World, published in the September 29th 1962 issue of The New Yorker. So I whipped out my copy of The Complete New Yorker and found it - only difficulty was that Jean got the title wrong but close enough :) The story is also online:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/09/29/a-vision-of-the-world
It's an unusual story, the inner monologue of a man who sees the world from a loftier perch than the rest of us. But he appears to be noticing that there is something wrong inside himself. Kind of an intellectual meander of a someone who has no earthly cares other than his health and internal feelings - a modern man of the 20th century ? I suspect Shepherd saw a little of himself as both the protagonist and the writer of the story.
I can remember that one episode of Seinfeld where George's fiance, Susan, finds out that her father had an affair with John Cheever !:
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheever_Letters
video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyT3jlANQ_Q
https://wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=67285
As Shep often did, he touched and bounced around on zillions of topics but in this clip:
you can hear him recommend a John Cheever story called A Vision Of The World, published in the September 29th 1962 issue of The New Yorker. So I whipped out my copy of The Complete New Yorker and found it - only difficulty was that Jean got the title wrong but close enough :) The story is also online:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/09/29/a-vision-of-the-world
It's an unusual story, the inner monologue of a man who sees the world from a loftier perch than the rest of us. But he appears to be noticing that there is something wrong inside himself. Kind of an intellectual meander of a someone who has no earthly cares other than his health and internal feelings - a modern man of the 20th century ? I suspect Shepherd saw a little of himself as both the protagonist and the writer of the story.
I can remember that one episode of Seinfeld where George's fiance, Susan, finds out that her father had an affair with John Cheever !:
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheever_Letters
video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyT3jlANQ_Q
Seinfeld Script: https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCheeverLetters.htm
The Seinfeld people were pretty bold to weave the names of real people into the fictional universe of their show.
Of course this prompts George to read Cheever:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/790a665b-82bf-43c8-ad2b-5b80d0434ab0
I have to confess that while I enjoyed reading The New Yorker I concentrated mostly on the non-fiction and the cartoons. The photography was good but sparse. The poems and fiction I mostly skipped. I did read some stories like the Salinger tales of the Glass family. But I still have literally hundreds of issues on this machine so I can go back and check out that fiction "real soon now" :)
But the next number will be to try watching The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster, I did read the story and it's in a similar vein to a Vision of the World.
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