It’s been far too long since I last gave you an opportunity to feel some healthy schadenfreude by letting you lord it over a magazine that’s no longer with us. So here’s a new installment in my series of rejection slips from dead magazines, focused on a title from an editor whose name has become somewhat infamous since this slip was sent to me twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
Back in 1991, I sent off a story titled “Apartment 6-D” to The Quarterly<\/em>, edited by Gordon Lish. (Yes, Gordon Lish.) I haven’t reread that story in years, but as I think back on it, it seems from this vantage point that Lish was entirely right to reject it, showing far better judgment than the editor who eventually published it.<\/a><\/p>\n At the time, I was unaware (we were all unaware) of Lish’s heavy-handed editing of the early works of Raymond Carver. Now that the details are out<\/a>, I’m no longer quite the fan I once was. <\/p>\n This remains, however, a masterful rejection slip.<\/p>\n
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