New Yorker Rejections: addendum


Subject: New Yorker Rejections: addendum
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 14:01:18 EST


That should have read:

"Also, unless it was a typo in the book, the first mention of a Bananafish
story is put at _January 1947_."

Also:

I recall JDS complaining to The New Yorker that they need to reassess or
widen their idea of what a short story is or could be.

That after Shawn intervened re _Zooey_, (thumbs down from all the Fiction
Editors), the Fiction Department was bypassed with the next offering:
_Seymour: an Introduction_. That story was sent _directly_ to Shawn (via
train with a packed sandwich and thermos).

Yagoda, the author, notes that he feels Shawn's genius wasn't really
appreciated until the famous dedication in _F&Z_. That that dedication
began the cult of Shawn, so to speak.

I don't recall Yogoda mentioning any specifics re _Hapworth's_ reception at
The New Yorker in '65.

There is a JDS letter to some New York newspaper re the New Yorker/Tom Wolfe
affair which must exist on microfilm (tiniest of snippets quoted by Yagoda).

There's a cryptic W. Maxwell to K. White letter quoted re JDS needing
special handling and Shawn being the solution.

OKAY, who has the blasted book? Please start typing. :)

--Bruce

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