http://www.edrants.com a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/stephen-dixons-version-of-musical-chairs/ http://www.edrants.com/stephen-dixons-version-of-musical-chairs/#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:08:57 +0000 Edward Champion http://www.edrants.com/?p=4023 Failbetter: “I didn’t merge the last two novels of the I. trio into one. The trio became a duo when McSweeney’s rejected the second voume of the work, then called 2. They rejected it, they said, because they were cutting back on their fiction. So I removed 2 from the trio, rewrote it in its entirety (something I’ve been doing a lot with my work the last few years), gave the I. character a name, and submitted the work, as Old Friends, to Melville House, which took it in a couple of weeks. Then McSweeney’s wrote, saying they were starting a new fiction series and they’d like to see 2. I said 2 was now Old Friends and unavailable, would you like to see 3, which was now End of I. and also entirely rewritten from first page to last? They did and they took it.” (via Moorish Girl)

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