Monday, July 5, 2010

Publication gossip

The inaugural issue of the Village Pariah, a literary journal sponsored by the Mark Twain Museum, is now available and includes my brief essay about introducing my then-9-year-old son to Huck Finn.

My book-length memoir about obsessive rereading has been rejected yet again, this time by a publisher who liked it so much that he has offered to try to convince another publisher to publish it. Work out the confusing implications of this if you can. Or avoid a headache and just don't bother.

2 comments:

Ruth said...

Or wait for it to be published by a publisher who has more sense.

Dawn Potter said...

In fairness to the publisher in question, he has been excessively kind. The problem is that he works under the thumb of an editorial board that wants the press to move away from literary prose and focus on academic texts. How this will improve their finances is a mystery to me, but what do I know?