Will Mr. Obama find "Inherent Vice" among his birthday gifts?

[Mark Kohut]

In American publishing, most onsale dates for new books are set, for coordinating shipping reasons, on a Tuesday, occasionally a Thursday. (Vollman is this Thursday, same publisher as IV)

If, as I understand, Charles Manson (and that murderous event?) is oft-alluded to in IV, then if Mr. Pynchon wanted the book to come out around the anniversary of that event--which is a Sunday, the 9th, this year-- Tuesday of this week or next would be the choices.

I know that the onsale date in America for "Mason & Dixon" was moved about two weeks later in the book's publishing cycle--evidently in order to fall on the birthday of Richard Farina. 

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> Subject: Will Mr. Obama find "Inherent Vice" among his birthday gifts?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 10:05 AM
> 
> And is THIS the reason why, of all people on earth,
> US-Americans have to
> wait until tomorrow? 
>  
> KFL
>  
>