HeyJaredEugene L Meyer
Author and Journalist. Former Wash Post reporter and editor. Editor, B'nai B'rith Magazine. Washington Independent Review of Books, board member and contributor. Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army.
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Rejections, I’ve had a few. Here are mine. (opens the original)
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I’m grateful for the many opportunities I’ve had as a writer, reporter and author over a decades long career. But along with acceptances have come, inevitably, rejections. Some are blunt and dismissive, others thoughtful, considerate and constructive.Very early on, in college, I pitched a story to The Village Voice. I didn’t save the story but I saved the rejection, which came on an undated printed card that said, “The editors regret that the enclosed contribution cannot be used in The Village V
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I’m grateful for the many opportunities I’ve had as a writer, reporter and author over a decades long career. But along with acceptances have come, inevitably, rejections. Some are blunt and dismissive, others thoughtful, considerate and constructive. In this post, I print some other authors have graciously shared in response to my request for their own rejections.From Andrew Kreig: When I was a newspaper Sunday magazine deputy editor (Hartford Courant, Sunday Magazine), one of our columnists re
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Rejections, I’ve had a few. (opens the original)
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Part I.I’m grateful for the many opportunities I’ve had as a writer, reporter and author over a decades-long career. But along with acceptance have come, inevitably, rejections.Some are blunt and dismissive, others are thoughtful, considerate and constructive. I cherish them all as benchmarks along the way from my professional past to the present.In this, and subsequent posts, I’m going to share some of mine and some that others have graciously provided in response to my query in search of, well
Dolly Parton, R.I.P. (opens the original)
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I saw her in person once. It was Tennessee night at National Harbor, just below Washington, and I was working on an economic development story for the New York Times. Dolly wasn’t part of my story, but she kicked off the program in all her star-spangled-and-rhinestone covered glory. How could I not watch and marvel at the decked out little woman from Eastern Tennessee? Entertainer aside, she was a big promoter of books, giving away 300 millions to poor young kids as part of her Imagination Libra
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