Re: The New Yorker Snubs Catcher

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>Speaking as a writer who regularly gets buried under rejections I have
>to say it is refreshing to learn that even JDS in his prime got stuff
>rejected by the New Yorker.  (I was astonished to hear they rejected
>'DDS Blue Period', too!)  It just goes to show the people in the trade
>tend mostly only to know what has already gone down well, not what will
>go down well in the future.  Presented with anything fresh or new they
>don't know what to make of it.  And how prosaic these peoples'
>objections seem in comparison to the shining beauty of the work they are
>(mis)judging.
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>-- 
>Colin


Colin,
Beautifully put.
--Bruce

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