Home Theatre Aficionado letter

The Home Theater Aficionado letter is a letter written by Brent Kurtwood, an editor at Home Theatre Aficionado Magazine, to Terrence Greenbriar. The letter admonishes Terrence's increasingly rambling reviews, giving him one last chance to fix his writing for the magazine. It comes inside a manila folder which must be opened to read the letter.

Folder
0451

Letter
Nov 1, 1994

Dear Terrence,

''David asked me to write you regarding the reviews you ve been submitting the last few months. Frankly they're becoming more trouble than they're worth from an editing standpoint. There's a word limit-- it's your job to stay under it, not mine to cut back to it. Even then it's becoming harder and harder to weed out the tangents and non sequiturs from the usable copy without heavy rewrites. The readers of Home Theatre Aficianado want to hear about the quality and value of the hardware, not ruminations on your childhood!''

''If it were up to me I wouldn't be writing this letter. I'd just be cutting you loose. There's tons of guys half your age who would take half your rate to write stuff I could actually use. But David's known you for a long time, and he's the boss, so I'm giving you one more shot on his say-so. You should write him a nice note thanking him for his patience and generosity.''

''Look through your old stuff and start submitting reviews like that again. Then everybody will be happy.''

Brent Kurtwood

Reviews Editor, Home Theater Aficionado Magazine

Location
The letter can be found inside a folder on a bookshelf in the Library.