Accueil (Welcome) (1958), Dorothea Tanning
Dear Polly,
About a year ago, I began querying a novel I had been working on for nearly ten years.
Meanwhile, about 10 months ago, I was laid off from my job. It was a fun job, a niche storytelling job in journalism I loved and was good at. I was, however, pretty burned out, and so I took my severance and unemploy…


