“Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all my straight friends when AIDS was at its worst. I particularly hated the New Yorker, where Calvin [Trillin] has published so much of his work. The New Yorker was the worst because they barely ever wrote about AIDS. I used to take out on Calvin my real hatred for the New Yorker.” RealUsedWorstExampleHatredMadAidsHatedNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
“David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.” GayBaseballChiefsEditorsNutsNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
“I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.” WantedGrowing UpGrowingSorryI'm SorryNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
“I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.” TryingWantedNiceLettersEditorsNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."” UsedCitiesDogGrewGrew UpFunctionAssConstructionNew YorkersKansasAdministrativeKansas City Author:Kevin Sessums
“I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingLittlesSaidSubjectsProgramRejectionAppropriateGraduatesFilmmakingNew YorkersColumbiaMbaMba Programs Author:Kevin Sessums
“I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.” WritingNationsNew Yorkers Author:Kevin Sessums
