Vineland Release

[chris sweet]

RICHARD ROMEO wrote:
> 
> For those of you who remember--did Vineland just appear on the shelves
> one day without too much pre-pub excitement or marketing or like was it
> announced way before it came out, title and all, story-line , etc.?  Just
> wondering whether Pynchon will try to keep eveything mum before he
> releases the next   I also wonder with communications the way they are
> now, couldn't one say we'll get news much earlier than say GR or even
> Vineland.
> 
> Richard Romeo
> 
> Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
> 
> The Foundation Center
> 
> 212-807-2417
> 
> rromeo at fdncenter.org


I seem to remember Pynchon Notes having a little blurb about it a few months
before hand but I can't seem to find that issue. 

I wonder how much money he made on Vineland. I read somewhere that the paperback
rights were sold for $700,000.

chris