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John O'Hara to Harold Ross: "I Have Decided to Reject Your Rejection"

Filed under: Eds. Tagged: books, Brian Sholis, Elizabeth Bishop, Harold Ross, Isek Dineson, John O'Hara, Marianne Moore, poetry, Samuel Pepys

From his January 1939 letter to Ross, just added to the brand-new and already much appreciated Today in Letters, a blog begun recently by Brian Sholis. Sholis, who just contributed a piece to PRINT and whose keen New Yorker event reporting I've called attention to before, calls his new enterprise "a 'this day in history' for literary correspondence and diaries." The entries so far include a letter from Baudelaire to his mother from 1856; a 1928 Isak Dinesen dispatch; a 1937 letter from Elizabeth Bishop to Marianne Moore; and a 1661 Pepys diary entry. What a great idea! It's going to be fun to see what he chooses. I've kept The Faber Book of Diaries and The Faber Book of Letters on my bedside table for years, since they're so damn entertaining.

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Adorable.

zpJanuary 10, 2007

That would be John, not Frank, O'Hara -- though I'd like to imagine that the then-twelve-year-old poet would have thought up something equally clever.

MichaelJanuary 13, 2007

Goodness, yes! Thanks, clever reader. Maybe O'Hara's speaking to me from the beyond, you know, like the sun did to him...

EmilyJanuary 13, 2007

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