That's a fascinating article.
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§ ita § - Feb 02, 2004 9:06:31 am PST #3287 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
erikaj - Feb 02, 2004 9:30:29 am PST #3288 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, it really was. I have gotten many "nice" rejections...the rejected part still hurt though, but I have to join her in being boggled at the not-poem recognizing poet, and the one that got hurt because the total love letter rejection was not (quite) an acceptance.
Susan W. - Feb 02, 2004 9:38:13 am PST #3289 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yeah, I can't imagine reacting that way to the gushing love letter reception--being grumpy that I'd had the bad luck to just miss the cut, sure, but encouraged all the same, and I'd have had that manuscript back out the door as fast as I could get to the post office.
(I didn't recognize the poem immediately, either, but I'm not a poet and almost never read modern poetry.)
erikaj - Feb 02, 2004 9:46:10 am PST #3290 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I did, because I worked on the lit mag in high school, and if a poem was not about suicide or love gone wrong it was a knock-off of it. And I was a poet once...poets should know, it's iconic.(A little bit too iconic...I really do think.)
Holli - Feb 02, 2004 3:06:06 pm PST #3291 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Between high school litmag and bad fanfic, I figure I'm pretty well inured to the worst of what the publishing industry can throw at me. Which is good, because I fully expect to spend a lot of time with the slush pile if I intern for a publishing company.
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:24:31 pm PST #3292 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Between high school litmag and bad fanfic, I figure I'm pretty well inured to the worst of what the publishing industry can throw at me. Which is good, because I fully expect to spend a lot of time with the slush pile if I intern for a publishing company.
Heh, heh, heh.
You think you know. What you are. What's to come. You haven't even begun.
deborah grabien - Feb 02, 2004 3:27:52 pm PST #3293 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Holli, take it from someone who's done both sides of the fence, as writer and as publishing company employee: Victor is horribly, tragically right.
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:30:07 pm PST #3294 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Holli, take it from someone who's done both sides of the fence, as writer and as publishing company employee: Victor is horribly, tragically right.
All I can say is, I hope that you never encounter work as horribly, horribly bad as the poem that made an editor friend of mine reply with the one sentence rejection letter, "I'm sorry. I was looking for something that was actually good."
deborah grabien - Feb 02, 2004 3:32:43 pm PST #3295 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Victor, howsabout falling in love with a manuscript, having everyone agree that the author deserves a Pulitzer, and then having the publisher bring it out in limited midlist with no pr and no backup because all their advertising money is tied up in frontlist writers who desperately need the publicity, like poor unknown Stephen King?
victor infante - Feb 02, 2004 3:34:52 pm PST #3296 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Victor, howsabout falling in love with a manuscript, having everyone agree that the author deserves a Pulitzer, and then having the publisher bring it out in limited midlist with no pr and no backup because all their advertising money is tied up in frontlist writers who desperately need the publicity, like poor unknown Stephen King?
Ouch. Yeah, that sucks.
But to be fair, that book took SK's assistants hours to write.