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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:46:13 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Croning again
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- > This about the Women's Review of Books. The story is that they reviewed
- > the book of a friend of mine with several other up-and-coming black women
- > authors. (She's a poet.) But she isn't black, and no one ever checked w/
- > her to make sure. The reviewer felt that Jeanne had somehow been dishonest.
- > (Her book has several major black characters.)
-
- That reminds me of something I heard not long ago about the editor of a
- short story anthology who got furious when she discovered that one of the
- contributors was male. She had asked for "stories written from the female
- point of view." A male, who happened to use his initials instead of a full
- name, submitted a story from a female point of view. It was accepted. Then
- he was accused of dishonesty.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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