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Reject!

A former editor in scholarly publishing helps decode manuscript-rejection letters

I have been in the business of rejection since I was 21 years old. Before I graduated from college,I commuted one day a week from New Haven to New York, where I worked as an unpaid intern for the economics and Bibles editor at Oxford University Press. Mostly what I did...

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