On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com>wrote:
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> We regret that we are unable to use the enclosed material. Thank you
> for giving us the opportunity to consider it.
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> Although we admit that "Namaste: Now You Die" is, as you insisted in
> your cover letter, "the riveting story of a Mumbai based self-help
> guru turned international assassin and Bollywood dance sensation", its
> subject and style are not congruent with the type of fiction favored
> by New Yorker editors and readers.
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> Similarly, your horror tale "Cleanliness Unto Death" is, we're sorry
> to inform you, not the sort of thing we publish (though the concept of
> an inexplicably sentient, and murderous, shower loofah is not without
> its charms).
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