New Yorker fiction revisited

[Paul Mackin]

Just read a (very) short story in today's New Yorker and thought of jd.

The story is by Henry Roth (that Henry Roth) and you can't exactly  
say it's about nothing--it's about a Depression-era writer in New  
York trying to sell a sketch he has written to The New Yorker.

Although very short, there is room in the story for the writer's girl  
friend, his best friend, a social worker, a literary agent, a  
construction worker, and a  Chinese femme de chambre.