Gone In October

Gone in OctoberJack is dead in St. Pete. I was reading about him in an old journal when Shirley called out from downstairs, having heard it on the radio. There were the bad moments waiting for a repeat of the newscast; there were the waves of awareness coming up and receding.... I have always addressed my sentences to him, to his canny eye, and it will be different to write from now on.... Allen G. called. By happenstance, he will be in New Haven tomorrow, and we will go down. "He didn't li...