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...Azelby Harvard 14 (7) Sr. 6'2" 225 Dumont. N.J. LB Kevin Bradley Penn 13 (6) Jr. 6'1" 200 Malvern. Pa. LB #Mike Scully Cornell 13 (6) Sr. 6'0" 220 Huntington, N.Y. DB #Tim Chambers Penn 14 (7) Jr. 5'10" 175 Newtown Square, Pa. DB Mike Dixon Harvard 14 (7) Sr. 6'1" 190 Long Beach Cal. DB Rick Dalley Cornell 12 (5) Sr. 5'10" 196 Hornell, N.Y. P #Jim Villanoeva Harvard 11 (4) Sr. 6'2" 195 Pac. Palisades...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
...Dixon's case, that risk seems well worth taking. Over the past 24 years he has had some 200 stories published in 125 periodicals, ranging from the venerable North American Review to the ephemeral Nitty-Gritty. Among his seven books, published mainly by small presses, his latest, Time to Go, emphatically establishes him as one of the short story's most accomplished if quirky practitioners...
Almost obsessively, Dixon has doomed the protagonist of most of his stories to repeated and often farcical failures in love. Whether named Mac, Jules or Will, he is conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and stonily sharp-witted. He unceasingly endures abuse, rejection, infidelity, abandonment and most of the other mortifications that can befall a man in the throes of passion...
Much of the satiric power of Dixon's stories springs from his reversals of sexual stereotypes. His women tend to be aggressive, and his standard male character is at best foolishly romantic. Yet the final cycle of stories in this collection suggests that a wimp can turn into a mensch. For the first time in the Dixon canon his male character gets the girl. In the title story he actually marries her, in spite of an imagined, ironic commentary on his courtship by his late father. The story Wheels lovingly tells of the baby that is born...