Author O. Henry’s Christmastime short story, “The Gifts of the Magi,” gets its power from an abbreviated length. The modern parable about a strapped-for-cash married couple’s attempts to buy each other presents is a read so easy that it could be spoken aloud by mom at bedtime as a more moral alternative to “The Night Before [...]
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM on November 26, 2012