The "Other" Jim Gavin

I should've done this blog post a while ago but I was annoyed with blogging and didn't bother. But this would make a good short post (my wife says no one reads my blog because I write too much - she's probably right). And I got another email the other day and it reminded me of this.

In the December 6, '10 edition of THE NEW YORKER, a guy named Jim Gavin wrote a short story called "Costello" about a middle-aged plumbing salesman and his dreary life in suburban Los Angeles. It was the kind of sh...