Let It All Hang Out

On Rejection, Stats, and What Really Matters

In the “By the Book” interview in the New York Times two weeks ago, Janice Y.K. Lee, author of THE EXPATRIATES, talked about about rejection:

“I loved ‘Prep’ by Curtis Sittenfeld so much because it perfectly encapsulated a certain experience of boarding school. When I read that it had initially been rejected by 14 publishers, it strangely gave me hope. …