Slush Rules!

The Wall Street Journal ran a story on January 15 suggesting that the era of unknown writers being plucked from obscurity is over. Called "The Death of the Slush Pile," the story points out that when Random House pulled Mary Cahill from the slush pile in 1991 it was the last time the publisher published a work from its slew of unsolicited manuscripts. The writer adds that authors such as Philip Roth, Anne Frank and Judith Guest were all discovered from slush. But now, the slush pile is a...