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Subject:Re: Rejection (aka "ding") letters From:"Lori A. Moreland" <lamorela -at- CLE -dot- AB -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 19 Aug 1994 08:20:00 -0400
Hi again!
Someone I knew (a frustrated technical writer who crafted lovely short fiction)
got brave and sent a particularly beautiful piece to *The New Yorker* magazine.
According to him (he wouldn't show me), he got back a "ding" letter that said
only this:
Sorry.
Compact, eloquent, yes. Kind to a writer's ego? No. But, hey-- when you're *The
New Yorker*...
Dumb question: Is there such a thing as an old yorker?
