SOURCE: "Storyville," in The New Yorker, Vol. LXX, No. 19, June 27-July 4, 1994, pp. 104-09.
Angell is an American author who has written several books about baseball and was the fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1956 to 1994. In the following essay, he reflects on the criteria for accepting works of fiction submitted to the New Yorker.
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