John O'Hara was one of the feathers of the
New Yorker.
He was one of the best short distance writers.
Short story writers show courtesy: they don't want to monopolize attention for too long.
The least you can do is return the courtesy, going straight to the point.
Sermons and Soda Water
(1960) doesn't mean
The Girl in the Luggage
Compartment, but the translator, Caroline Didi, wanted to capture our attention with this title that looks like a tear-off poster in an old copy of
Playboy.
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He will be forgiven a lot, but you will recognize that the cocktail in its original version was just as intriguing: a “sermon & soda”, please.
Take a homily, mix it in a shaker with sparkling water, or tonic, or any lemonade: you won't necessarily get Charlotte Sears, the Hollywood star of this book (unless you add a lot of gin).
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