Harper's Magazine
"On the strength of a newly accquired Master's degree he lands a job as an English instructor in a small state college somewhere in
the far West, probably in Oregon."
"The main charcter in A New Life is a one S. Levin, a New York Jew with a sordid past behind him (his father was a thief, his mother a
suicide), he himelf has only recently recovered from a bad bout of alcoholism."