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Thank You for the Light - F. Scott Fitzgerald Blurb: The story was found among the author’s papers by Fitzgerald’s grandchildren and was passed along to the agent for the estate by the Fitzgerald scholar and editor James West. Fitzgerald had submitted it to The New Yorker in 1936, four years before his death, but it was rejected with the following note: 'We’re afraid that this Fitzgerald story is altogether out of the question. It seems to us so curious and so unlike the kind of thing we associate with him, and really too fantastic. We would give a lot, of course, to have a Scott Fitzgerald story and I hope that you will send us something that seems more suitable. Thank you, anyhow, for letting us see this.'Treisman speculates that it might have been the story’s irreverent treatment of the Virgin Mary that made it “out of the question” in 1936. But times have changed and the Virgin “has undergone a lot worse treatment than she did at Fitzgerald’s hands in the years since.” Now, Treisman says, the story reads as a “lovely little sketch” and “a curiosity of literary interest.”http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/podcast/