Re: Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:58:35 -0700

I always thought it rather interesting that Pretty Mouth... was published in
The New Yorker the *exact* week of The Catcher's publication (and Paul
Kennedy's birth).  Can't imagine a more  un-Catcher-like story.

--Bruce

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From: AntiUtopia@aol.com <AntiUtopia@aol.com>
To: Laughing Man <the_laughing_man@hotmail.com>; bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
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Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes


>The phrase came from a poem the husband wrote for the wife...it's in the
story.  Pretty touching and pathetic.
>
>I probably "like" that story least of the Nine, but it's powerful and
effective...one of the best of the nine.
>
>Jim
>