Miscellany Reject Reads
- SYLVIA PLATH rejected because: "There isn't enough genuine talent."
- JACK KEROUAC rejected due to: "Frenetic...scrambling."
- ANNE FRANK rejected for being: "Very dull."
- GEORGE ORWELL rejected because it's: "Impossible to sell animal stories."
- JORGE LUIS BORGES rejected as: "Utterly untranslatable"
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV rejected for being: "Too racy."
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER rejected insultingly: "It's Poland and the rich Jews again."
- ANAIS NIN rejected because there's: "No commercial advantage in acquiring her."
3 comments:
Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath was in the final stages of contract at Viking when Steinbeck's editor went on vacation. A sub-editor found the MS, decided it was insufficiently Marxist, and sent Steinbeck a rejection. The editor returned, rescinded the rejection, and fired the sub-editor.
maybe if John Steinbeck had joined the writers who don't suck at myspace the sub editor would have been all like "oh yeah, Jo s-beck, he cool." and the editor all like "fo sho"
Wow, just think. One day I maybe be on that list lol
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