Thank you for the Light

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that this week's copy of the New Yorker (August 6, 2012) has a never-before-released short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Apparently, he wrote the story in 1936, and it was recently rediscovered in his papers. While Fitzgerald is remembered as one of the first Catholics to make it into the red-blooded, historically Protestant, American canon, he was what many would consider lapsed because it was a rare thing for him to go to Mass or pray the rosary. However, there is evidence in his letters to his daughter towards the end of his life (1940) that suggests his Catholicism was less of a practice and more of a constant thought, which wavered from background to foreground.* This particular story is witty, undoubtedly Catholic, and one magazine page long. If you're not near a news stand, here's the link: "Thank you for the Light"


*Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up. Online. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 
            1945. 305. eBook. <http://books.google.com/>.