Every week in a competition of wits The New Yorker asks a question of the Twitter-verse. Its most recent contest asked followers to reply to the question, “What’s the worst job in literature?” Although James Joyce’s proofreader appeared several times in the list, most tweeters stuck to the fictional theme. In the end the job The…
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New Fiction by… F. Scott Fitzgerald?
We already know that most, if not all, of the world’s most celebrated writers had their fair share of rejection before shooting to literary fame. It comes as no surprise, then, that F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of The Great Gatsby, was at one point turned away by such an elite publication as The New Yorker. Back…
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