Brian Doyle, Andre Dubus, and the Power of No

In this 2008 essay from The Kenyon Review, Brian Doyle muses on the experiences of literary rejection and acceptance, and shares that he was one of the final editors to publish the late Andre Dubus.

"Yes to half of an essay by Andre Dubus, an essay we were cheerfully arguing about when he died of a heart attack, and I asked his oldest son if I could print the good half and not the mediocre half, and he said yes, which made me smile, for I could almost hear Andre cursing at me happily from the afterworld, in that dark amused growly drawly rumble he had when alive."