A Leaflet Dropped Over Amy Weller’s House

Crazy to think that my first published piece in The New Yorker was 21 years ago this month. I had been pitching to the magazine for years before this was published, and I had come close, but this was the first sale. This was long before the Daily Shouts & Murmurs. My parents, then living, didn’t understand the piece, but they were proud enough to have i…