The Reenactments by Nick Flynn
Author:Nick Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
PAUL looks through the boxes for one letter—the rejection from Viking Press, which describes my father’s writing as a virtuoso display of personality (yet its dosage would kill hardier readers than we have here). Paul imagines my father—De Niro—carrying this letter with him everywhere as a totemic object, unfolding it when his faith in himself flags. After Suck City came out, a woman got in touch with me—she’d written another rejection letter to my father, this one from Little, Brown. She told me that she sincerely admired his writing, yet she was only an assistant, she wasn’t the one who made the decision about who to publish. The name she signed to all her rejection letters (Sandra Brown) was not her own—a pseudonym to protect her from disgruntled writers. My father had Sandra Brown subpoenaed to testify as to his character and talent when he was being sentenced for robbing banks—this was how he discovered that Sandra Brown did not exist. Telling the story now, he still seems genuinely crushed, more crushed about that than about the part where he’s sentenced, which he relates with what seems like bravado. In the boxes Debra sent us I find a letter that suggests that the woman he knew as Sandra Brown eventually ended up knowing my father a little better than as simply another rejected writer.
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