Rejection Notes for Famous Authors: ‘I Don’t Dig This One at All’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.21.11 | 7:41 AM ET

The Atlantic has a fun round-up of rejection notes received by some now-famous authors, before they made it big. Among them: Peter Matthiessen and Jack Kerouac, whose “On the Road” is dismissed by a Knopf editor as “huge sprawling and inconclusive.” Said another editor: “I don’t dig this one at all.”

Tags: Jack Kerouac, Media Addict, Travel Writing, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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