Editing Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

"one man's silly is another man's floor'----Not Paul Simon

I am afraid that the belief that TRP would have another bestseller 
with AtD was real.  They paid bestseller dollars for it; you would not believe the remored $$ I've heard (and I'm not spreading the rumors)...

And they "advanced'---sales before shipping---the title in bestseller-believing floor displays and into newstand book outlets......

Yes, they wanted and published it to be a bestseller.

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Editing Pynchon?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:46 AM
> 4)Late books self-designed to
> "fail"?  One day after "Inherent Vice"
> is published and its
> 'success' so far, in reviews and sales? One day after
> Heikki reminds
> us that both Vineland and Mason & Dixon made the new
> York Times
> bestseller list? Skewed argument here.
> 
> So when they published AGTD they thought they had a best
> seller? That's silly.
>