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Unfortunately Best of Luck: On Literary Rejection
Unfortunately Best of Luck: On Literary Rejection
By Mikael Awake
November 21, 2011

Flavorwire dug up an eleven year-old Missouri Review article on rejection letters from the Knopf archives to bring the Internets a fascinating sampling of some of the "harshest" letters ever doled out to some of the most famous writers of the 20th century. Nabokov, Vonnegut, Stein: talk to the proverbial hand. 

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