JessicaRulestheUniverse.com

While leafing through The Big New Yorker Book of Cats, an anthology of stories, poems, New Yorker covers and cartoons featuring cats, we found David Schickler’s story, The Smoker. We read The Smoker in Schickler’s story collection Kissing in Manhattan and we liked that collection a lot. It reminded us of Nine Stories by a certain other writer. However, we could not recall the presence of a cat in the story.

So we read the story again. We still like it very much, and it does have a cat in it. Here’s Robert Sean Leonard reading The Smoker for NPR’s Selected Shorts.

I am Saffy and I demand that you put me in a short story. As the main protagonist.

Read the short story by David Schickler at The New Yorker.