Tag: The travails of rejection
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Y. Tombstone Chronicles
Introduction: ‘Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip’ was Charles Bukowski’s first published story… Robert Pirsig claimed to have accumulated 103 rejection slips before his masterwork, ‘Zen and Motorcycle Maintenance’, was accepted… Much more intimidating was the boast of Truman Capote that he “never had a rejection slip.” I have no presumption of comparing my experience to that of…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 