The author writes: "The two long pieces in this book
originally came out in The New Yorker—RAISE HIGH THE ROOF
BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION in 1959.
Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both
very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main
character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass
family. It struck me that they had better be collected
together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a
hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close
contact with new material in the series. There is only my
word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories
coming along—waxing, dilating—each in its own way, but I
suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the
better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the
Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the
years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the
casino proper of my fiction. "
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