{"id":490,"date":"2005-02-03T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=490"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:59:12","slug":"mystery-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mystery-achievement","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Weiner explains how to submit<\/a> a Talk of the Town piece to the New Yorker<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Step eight: Paranoia. Decide that Talk of the Town assistant is twenty-two-year-old Brown graduate with size zero leather miniskirt and degree in semiotics who automatically shuns any book or short story with actual plot and unambiguous ending. Imagine Talk of the Town assistant as mean-faced girl from freshman year of college who corrected your pronunciation of “heinous” in front of a room full of classmates, including guy on whom you had a crush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jennifer Weiner explains how to submit a Talk of the Town piece to the New Yorker. Step eight: Paranoia. Decide that Talk of the Town assistant is twenty-two-year-old Brown graduate with size zero leather miniskirt and degree in semiotics who automatically shuns any book or short story with actual plot and unambiguous ending. Imagine Talk … <\/p>\n

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