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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:05:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Croning again
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- >> 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.
-
- >The author wrote about it in the _About Men_ Section of the Sunday NYT
- >Magazine 3 or 4 weeks ago. He had an "ambiguous" first name (don't remember
- >the name now). The editor addressed him as "Dear xxxx", and not Ms. xx in
- >all their correspondence, so the author never realized the editor's error.
- >He called the editor after seeing a blurb of the anthology!!
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- His name is Dinty Moore -- no word on his relationship to the stew
- company. As Rashmi reports, he *didn't* use his initials in submitting
- the story. My memory of the NYT Magazine article is that the subject
- matter of the anthology was Catholic school from the girl student's
- point of view. And that nothing whatsoever stated that the writer had
- to be female. Would the editor have complained if a Protestant woman
- had submitted a story?
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