Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction

　　The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originallycame out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERSin 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever theirdifferences in mood or effect, they are both very much concernedwith Seymour Glass, who is the main character in mystill-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me thatthey had better be collected together, if not deliberately pairedoff, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly orundesirably close contact with new material in the series. There isonly my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass storiescoming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but Isuspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better.Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass familypeculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't saywhy, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of myfiction.