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The rejection letter Kurt Vonnegut received for his account of the Dresden bombing
Posted November 22, 2011
on:Here’s something to galvanize you as NaNoWriMo 2011 rolls to a close.
On August 29, 1949, The Atlantic Monthly sent this rejection letter to a 27-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, who had submitted his account of surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden (plus two other articles) to the magazine. And as you…