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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Books Take That, Gertrude Stein!

Posted by on Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:31 AM

Rejection hurts. Being rejected in a style mocking your own style of writing? Treasure!

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Thank you, WOW Report and Letters of Note.

 

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In a way it's the ultimate writer's fantasy to have some twat really lay into you like that and then, 100 years later, everyone knows who you are and nobody's ever heard of the guy who was fucking with you.
Posted by Judah http://www.suoxi.net on February 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM
thatsnotright 2
He must have kicked himself, every time he walked by a bookstore, in later years.

Andre Gide not only rejected Marcel Proust's manuscript for Remberance of Time Past, but Proust always believed Gide never even read it because it was returned in the same paper wrapper and the knot was still tied in Proust's idiosynctatic manner.
Posted by thatsnotright on February 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM
dirac 3
The better letter is about Mickey Mantle's blowjob at Yankee Stadium.
Posted by dirac on February 2, 2011 at 12:34 PM
merry 4
Oooh, I bet she was reeaaalllly steamed when she got that in the mail.

But yeah, the last laugh (in the 21st Century!!) is definitely hers.
Posted by merry on February 2, 2011 at 1:46 PM
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This is from an author to a publisher, but still worth a read.
http://copywriterunderground.com/2006/12…
Posted by Peruna on February 2, 2011 at 4:46 PM

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