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Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters

"No" is Always an Uninteresting Answer

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Sean deLone
Apr 04, 2024
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My Nightmare

This week’s newsletter is about rejections. It is prompted by an article about Toni Morrison’s rejection letters she wrote in her time as an editor at Knopf.

Someone having access to and examining all of my rejection letters, as this writer did with Morrison’s, is somewhat of a personal nightmare.  Rejection letters— nowadays rejection emails…

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