“Get out of my life and stay out of my life.”
By Waldo Jaquith
August 24th, 2007
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Elizabeth, at Charlottesville Words, provides perhaps the strangest rejection letter that has ever been sent. We’ve been a little sensitive about our own rejection letters ever since David Keeling awarded us a C+, but now I see that, relatively speaking, we’re real sweethearts.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
August 24th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Wow. That is one crazy, freakish rejection letter. I can say there has never been a letter such as that to land in in my mailbox/email. Thankfully. I wonder if there was any story behind it, or if the guy was just off-kilter?
Oh-and I love David Keeling’s site. I did read that post on VQR’s rejection letter. You guys are sweethearts, comparatively.
August 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am
That letter was pretty amazing, and I imagine most writers have seen some doozies. I’m looking forward to visiting the site you mention — I’ve long thought that there should be consequences for evil/dumb rejections. This could be it.