{"id":38619,"date":"2012-09-17T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=38619"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:27:19","slug":"38619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/38619\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection, Crime, and Gum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gumball-Paris-Review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38623\" title=\"photo_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gumball-Paris-Review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/indianareview.org\/2012\/09\/10\/three-stories-unlikely-to-make-it-beyond-the-slush\/\" target=\"_blank\">three types of stories<\/a> one editor tends to reject.<\/li>\n<li>Meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/theagencyreview.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agency Review<\/a>, devoted to books on advertising. <\/li>\n<li>The short, strange story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2012\/09\/chewing-gatsby\" target=\"_blank\">Gatsby gumballs<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Oh, dear. An (allegedly) disgruntled author was taken into custody after (allegedly) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-jc-literary-agent-assault-twitter-20120914,0,7168502.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">attacking a San Francisco literary agent<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designworklife.com\/2012\/04\/27\/student-work-woody-harrington-novel-tea-cafe-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">A school project<\/a> we wish were real. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt was George Orwell\u2019s golden-eyed toad that made me a writer.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/f4d6f80a-fc29-11e1-aef9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26gtmiWFZ\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Schama<\/a> on literary inspiration. <\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three types of stories one editor tends to reject. Meet the Agency Review, devoted to books on advertising. The short, strange story of Gatsby gumballs. Oh, dear. An (allegedly) disgruntled author was taken into custody after (allegedly) attacking a San Francisco literary agent. A school project we wish were real. \u201cIt was George Orwell\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[3743,8662,4840,8661,149,7723,8663,659],"class_list":["post-38619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-candy","tag-gatsby-gumballs","tag-george-orwell","tag-indiana-review","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-simon-schama","tag-the-great-gatsby"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rejection, Crime, and Gum by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 17, 2012 \u2013 The three types of stories one editor tends to reject. Meet the Agency Review, devoted to books on advertising. 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