The New Yorker magazine published a previously unpublished story by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Thank You for the Light. The title plays on the two meanings of the word “light” - “light” and “light”.

A little story about a smoker was written in 1936; At the same time, Fitzgerald, for whom publishing stories in magazines was an important source of income, proposed the text to The New Yorker, but the magazine refused to print it. According to The Huffington Post, The New Yorker felt that the story was weird and not at all associated with the writer.

More than 75 years later, The New Yorker decided to correct itself and took advantage of the new proposal. The manuscript of the story was found by the writer’s heirs, who were sorting through his papers in order to subsequently put them up for auction at Sotheby’s. This year, The New Yorker was offered to publish the story by a specialist in Fitzgerald's work, editor James West.

The main character of Fitzgerald's story is Mrs. Hanson, a woman of about 40, an employee of a company that sells corsets and belts. She goes on a work trip to several US states where smoking is not encouraged, and Mrs. Hanson likes to smoke an occasional cigarette to relax during a busy day at work. The search for a place to smoke leads the main character to a Catholic cathedral.

Fitzgerald, to whom the novel “This Side of Paradise” (1920) brought significant success, was published in many newspapers and magazines after its release. The New Yorker, as reported on the publication's website, published three short humorous stories by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and several poems in 1929-1937.2012