{"id":55250,"date":"2013-06-27T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=55250"},"modified":"2013-06-27T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:23:18","slug":"a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rejection Is a Rejection Is a Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold what is either the best or worst rejection letter we have ever seen (depending on your capacity for cruelty), sent to Gertrude Stein in 1912 by publisher Arthur C. Fifield. Given that the manuscript in question became <em>Three Lives\u00a0<\/em>(among other things) we suppose she had the last laugh. And as an editor, you can\u2019t help thinking: Just how much time did this guy have on his hands?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55252\" alt=\"stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/gertrude-stein-gets-rejected\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Electric Lit<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold what is either the best or worst rejection letter we have ever seen (depending on your capacity for cruelty), sent to Gertrude Stein in 1912 by publisher Arthur C. Fifield. Given that the manuscript in question became Three Lives\u00a0(among other things) we suppose she had the last laugh. And as an editor, you can\u2019t [&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":[2384],"tags":[11251,7165,3292,11252],"class_list":["post-55250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-arthur-c-fifield","tag-ephemera","tag-gertrude-stein","tag-rejections"],"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>A Rejection Is a Rejection Is a Rejection by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 27, 2013 \u2013 Behold what is either the best or worst rejection letter we have ever seen (depending on your capacity for cruelty), sent to Gertrude Stein in 1912 by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Rejection Is a Rejection Is a Rejection by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 27, 2013 \u2013 Behold what is either the best or worst rejection letter we have ever seen (depending on your capacity for cruelty), sent to Gertrude Stein in 1912 by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-27T15:10:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-06-27T15:23:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"870\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"A Rejection Is a Rejection Is a Rejection\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-06-27T15:10:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-06-27T15:23:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/\"},\"wordCount\":81,\"commentCount\":9,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/a-rejection-is-a-rejection-is-a-rejection\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stein-rejection-letter-706x1024-1600.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Arthur C. 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