Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

 320. None of us is young this week and with death and calamity just down the street few of us vicarious any longer. 24 September 2001.

He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. Roger Angell (born September 19 1920) is an American essayist known for his writing on sports especially baseball.