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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Richard Yates - by Ryan O'Neill
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Richard Yates - by Ryan O'Neill

 1.       Despite writing two excellent short story collections which included several stories now acknowledged to be classics, Yates, to his eternal chagrin, never had a story accepted by The New Yorker while he was alive. Apparently the magazine objected to his ‘mean-spirited view of things.’ One story ‘The Canal’ was belatedly published years after his death. 

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