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“It Hurts” is a kind of vignette of personal memoir Bret Lott shares on rejection. I think you’ll find it touches a deep place. Perhaps you will also hear an example of what it takes to keep at your craft, listening to rejection and receiving it as an essential form of instruction.
Bret Lott is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including the novels Ancient Highway, The Hunt Club, A Song I Knew by Heart, and Jewel (an Oprah’s Book Club selection). Formerly editor of The Southern Review, Lott was appointed to the National Council on the Arts in 2006. He taught creative writing for nearly forty years at the College of Charleston. He and his wife, Melanie, live in the country outside Charleston, South Carolina.
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The music in this episode “A View of His Own Choosing” by Kerry Muzzey / Musicbed.com.
