Your correspondent has decided that thru this month of December he will read only stories related, in some way, to Christmas.
This is not a great challenge, as an enormous amount has been penned on Christmas, from St. Luke on down. There are, to begin, Dickens's Christmas tales, not only "A Christmas Carol" but also "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man," all three collected in a Modern Library edition, and "The Cricket on the Hearth," which some of us remember, if not well, from grade nine English class.
"Christmas at The New Yorker" is, to steal a phrase, a great plum pudding of a book, with stories, poems, cartoons and other work by all the usual New Yorker suspects--Cheever, Updike, Thurber, O'Hara, E.B. White, Peter DeVries, Nabokov, Garrison Keillor, Ogden Nash, Calvin Trillin, et al.
There is even a surprisingly large number of mysteries set in the Christmas season. Our choice this year: "Upon Some Midnight Clear," another Chief Mario Balzic yarn by the great K.C. Constantine.
So on to the book shelves. (We'll get around to shopping, decorating, and mailing cards sometime in 2013.)
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