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...Frazier, 36, is an employee of The New Yorker, where during the past eleven years he has written occasional humor (Dating Your Mom, a collection, appeared last year) and factual stories, including the five pieces gathered together in Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody. On the surface, it would appear that Frazier does not exactly knock himself out with work. In fact, he confirms this impression, openly admitting to lallygagging on the job. In the first sentence of "An Angler at Heart," he confesses that he has often "taken a walk from the offices of The New Yorker along Forty-third...
Having found a bucolic niche in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Frazier eases himself into a story that is partly a profile of Deren, a guru to flycasters the world over and the "greatest man I know of who will talk to just anybody off the street." The author also digresses into a three-page list of the inventory in Deren's store and reminisces about his own fishing experiences and misadventures: "The woman told me to hold still and the dog wouldn't bite me. I held still, and the dog bit me in the right shoulder. I told...
...Frazier approaches his subjects like a man who does not want to move too fast and frighten them away. In the title story, he decides to find out a little something about Ponce Cruse Evans, the woman who writes the syndicated column "Hints from Heloise." This involves, for some reason, driving from Chicago to San Antonio, where Evans lives. "In Muskogee, Oklahoma," Frazier confides, "I saw a Taco Hut, a Taco Bell, and a Taco Tico." Then he has to find a suitable motel ("I wanted a locally owned one") and assess his impressions so far: "I had not been...
...astonishing thing is that Frazier does come up with a detailed profile of Evans and her mother, who founded the column and whose name really was Heloise. This in spite of much duly reported bar- and restaurant-hopping and a brush with the law after finding himself lost in a deserted shopping mall: "He told me to give him my license and sit down and shut up or he'd throw my ass in jail for public intoxication. I told him I hadn't seen much else but public intoxication in San Antonio that night, and his handcuffs made...
...Bill Flanagan 23 4 8 12 9 18 Maurice Mansi 22 3 7 10 9 19 Rob Schena 30 1 9 10 16 32 S. Mulligan 12 1 7 8 4 8 G. Townshend 29 6 1 7 25 50 Jim Kropp 22 1 4 5 6 12 Paul Frazier 10 2 1 3 3 6 Arik Mathison 10 1 2 3 5 10 Kevin Mazzella 5 2 0 2 2 4 Ryan Kummu 18 0 2 2 16 32 Rod Brescia 13 0 2 2 10 20 Matt Lanza 16 0 1 1 9 31 Ken DeCubellis...