Notes of a Middle-Aged Baby Writer
For ballet, it may be too late. For writing, it never is.
3 min readMar 31, 2021
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I was 13 when I got my first rejection from The New Yorker.
Most bookish adults have a story about getting in trouble for reading as child — in class, or at a party. I don’t recall that happening to me, maybe because I was a child of bookish people. What I got in trouble for was…