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: aprilhenry (aprilhenry) wrote,
2009-09-28 06:21:00

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aprilhenry
2009-09-28 06:21:00

The books that got away

Agent Betsy Lerner looks at some books that got away. “I surveyed some of New York’s top editors asking if they would divulge which books got away, either because they didn’t recognize their value (either commercial or literary) when they saw it, or because the deciders said nay.”

What fascinates me is how honest the answers, which you can read here, are.

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The books that got away

Blake Nelson on Destroy All Cars

Just because I like this

The “real literary world”

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