Short Stories

"Smoked Cheese"

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Information

• First published:
  • Atlantic Monthly, November 1945

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Notes

Special thanks to site contributor Marvin Winitz, who tracked down this story and provided me with a copy. Marvin also notes:

"John L. Lewis [there is a reference to him in the story] was a trade union leader in charge at that time of labor strike action. The Atlantic Monthly was a sophisticated magazine that included current events analysis, considered several grades above the more popularistic Saturday Evening Post and their 'factual' stories. [Marvin is referring to the "Shot Down Over Libya" controversy.] ... Another change [from "The Upsidedown Mice"] that really hit me funny was that instead of a television set glued to the ceiling it was changed to a radio set glued to the ceiling. ... R. Dahl was really with it on glue. The glue episodes here and in The Twits evolved into superglue in Matilda."