Re: how to get published
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:15:05 -0700
Though I have agreed with *most* of what Scottie has written recently re
getting published, I would like to point out that Samuel Beckett's first
novel, "Murphy", was turned down by over forty publishers and this was AFTER
publishing a book of criticism, a volume of short stories, and 2 volumes of
poems.
--Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: how to get published
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> '... What people post to listserves and what they put
> out when they're Really writing are two different
> things ...'
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> That's certainly what Tim asserted some time ago.
> But I wonder. I don't doubt we all take greater
> care with our more serious stuff. Yet it seems to me
> that in the gossipy, informal letters of Hemingway,
> Fitzgerald, Woolf, Waugh, Greene, Rowse, Nicolson,
> of almost any good writer whose correspondence has
> been put out to the public there remains the tell-tale
> vitality, the attack, the imprint of style & attitude
> that informs their more considered work. I simply
> find it difficult to believe that what you would
> presumably call a REAL writer can easily put his name
> to conscious crap.
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> And I STILL think that if I'd been turned down by
> 38 - thirty eight - agents I'd be less than wholly confident
> about the value - or at least the marketability - of my offerings.
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> Scottie B.
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