Failure to mention Gravity's Rainbow as paperback original

[Paul Mackin]

Still another instance of no respect . . . .


"The paperback original is not an entirely new concept, of course.  
European publishing companies have been doing it for years; in the  
United States, Beat writers were often published only in paperback in  
the 1960's. Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City," the seminal  
novel of the 1980's, was first released as a paperback in 1984 by  
Vintage Contemporaries, a Random House imprint. More recently, in  
1999, Jhumpa Lahiri's volume of short stories, "Interpreter of  
Maladies" was released only in paperback by Houghton Mifflin's  
Mariner Books. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction."



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/books/22pape.html