A Person Who Sort Of Missed Fitting In Summary
The writer starts her paper by explaining who a misfit person is. "A person who sort of missed fitting in", she says. She is of the opinion that she is a misfit too, and she wants to tell us her own experience of misfitting.
In her early 30s, she won a prize for writing a short story. The story was mainly about herself as a swimmer. The prize was a trip to New York City and a bunch of meetings with well-known authors and publishers such as Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The three authors that she decided to meet with were Carole Maso, Lynne Tillman, and Peggy Phelan. On the second day, she went to W.W. Norton. At Norton, the lead editor, Carol Houck, asked her to send her something immediately, yet she did not and it took her over a decade to
In her early 30s, she won a prize for writing a short story. The story was mainly about herself as a swimmer. The prize was a trip to New York City and a bunch of meetings with well-known authors and publishers such as Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The three authors that she decided to meet with were Carole Maso, Lynne Tillman, and Peggy Phelan. On the second day, she went to W.W. Norton. At Norton, the lead editor, Carol Houck, asked her to send her something immediately, yet she did not and it took her over a decade to