Henry Holt (was Re: New TRP Book)

[Mr Craig Clark]

The latest edition of the South African MAIL & GUARDIAN newspaper 
carries a story (probably originally from the Bristish GUARDIAN) by 
Ian Katz and Dan Glaister that Henry Holt has just paid 2 million US 
greenbacks for the US rights to Rushdie's _The Ground Beneath Her 
Feet_.  The story notes that this kind of US publishing deal is 
unheard-of for a "literary novelist", and that this kind of figure is 
closer to what someone like John Grisham gets.

The story quotes "publishing industry insiders" as saying that it's 
unlikely that Holt would recup such an advance, and that the move is 
probably "an attempt to establish Holt as a literary heavyweight".

Wonder how much TRP is getting for the new one? And 
youngpersonoyoungperson, if they're publishing TRP and Rushdie, are 
they ever literary heavyweights...



Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"