Jonathan Safran Foer

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jd [mailto:wescac at gmail.com]
> 
> RE: marketing, I think that a poster is gentle marketing... maybe
> placing an ad somewhere in the book review section... but a big
> audio-visual event (which undermines the purpose of the novel as art
> form IMO) where you all line up to buy the book & get a shot at
> unlocking yet another marketing ploy I do think is on the shameless
> side.  

I want there to be several books with a golden page where you get to tour the publishing factory and one of the winners actually wins the publishing house, and I want Johnny Depp _AND_ Gene Wilder to be the tour guides