Letters of Note: Try again, won’t you?

Remember that “Seinfeld” episode where Jerry decides to live out every standup comic’s fantasy by visiting the office of a heckler and disrupting her while she’s trying to do her job?

Behold, the comeuppance of legendary mystery and thriller writer John D. MacDonald:

If by any chance we have been unable to use your magazine, don’t be discouraged. It may not be due to any particular deficiency in the magazine, but instead to the fact that we haven’t recently been writing the type of THING that you use.

via Letters of Note: Try again, won’t you?.