Okay, okay … it’s still a few months before he gets the Nobel, but still… it’s heartening to know that even world-famous writers get “no thanks” letters, and on New Yorker letterhead no less. Roger Angell‘s 1981 letter to Gabriel García Márquez comes to us courtesy the University of Texas’s Ransome Center and is making the rounds on Twitter.
February 10th, 2020 at 9:56 pm
“When you say ‘rejection,'” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you rejections, in comparison with which you’d call this an acceptance.” “No, I shouldn’t,” said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: “a rejection can’t be an acceptance, you know. That would be nonsense.” The Red Queen shook her head.