Re: From Daumier to Smith
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:02:24 -0700
I haven't read "DDSBP" in years, and hence will refrain from commenting.
However, in reading the Alexander biography recently, I find it interesting
that The New Yorker rejected it. Thought I would throw that into the pot. To
quote:
The notion behind the story was too complicated, Lobrano [JDS's editor]
believed; its events were 'too compressed.' Finally, the piece seemed
almost willfully strange, which Lobrano knew wasn't true, but that was how
it *seemed.* Salinger was affected by this rejection more than
most....because he had reached the point where The New Yorker accepted
almost any story he submitted to them. On November 15, Salinger wrote to
Lobrano to tell him he was profoundly disheartened by the rejection. It was
a short letter.
--pp. 158-9.