I can't believe this secret american masterpiece is out-of-print or something like that. "Jerningan" reads like a novel written a deux by John Cheever and J.P. Donleavy but, in the end, sounds a hundred per cent David Gates. I can't believe all I had to wait for "Preston Falls" (it was worth it: a novel that reads like "Jernigan Redux & Revisited", an apocalyptic end of milenium "Tender is the Night"); I read one of the best interviews to Bob Dylan ever (signed by Gates in Newsweek) and I hear that a short stories collection is coming out. Open the Gates, I'm first in line.