Oprah & Franzen

[pynchonoid]

somebody:
[...] The good reviews helped, to be sure, as did the 
National Book Award, but anyone who was there at the
time, in the business, 
that is, knows that without Oprah's imprimatur, The
Corrections would never have 
reached anything like the sell through it achieved. 
Not even close.  The 
scandal created by Franzen's derogatory comments about
the Book Club and Oprahs' 
decision not to have him on the air only added more
fuel to the fire, and 
increased sales even more.[...] 


This sounds about right.  Malign could look back to
compare sales of previous National Book Award winners
that did not get the Oprah publicity.


[...] PS. Watch your spelling, please --
overvauling/publically [...] 


Sloppy spelling is easy enough to overlook, but I wish
you would both stop sending HTML email to Pynchon-L,
just set your email app or browser to send plain text.


	
		
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