IV Scene Upstate

[Mark Kohut]

terrif little story....loved it.....

BTW, 2 copies sold per store per day....makes a BIG bestseller in our culture.....although NOT at the Vampire/Potter books level...

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>
> Subject: IV Scene Upstate
> To: "Rich Clavey" <antizoyd at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:47 AM
> So I decided to go get my
> Barnes&Noble copy of IV after noon yesterday, hoping to
> catch the Pynchon fanatica gathering round the Starbucks
> fires during their lunch hours.  Also, concerned for my
> safety should the crush get too rough, I suited up for
> battle: Jimmy Choo stilettos, LBD, shades, a parasol and my
> copy of ATD for a shield or cudgel as necessary. On
> arrival, there it was:  DIRECTLY in front of the entrance
> doors in all of its green and magenta glory, smackdabcenter
> of a table bannered:  SUMMER READING!  What hardy reader
> could have ever envisioned such a Pynchon placement.  (Yeh,
> right there with the latest Charlene Harris, Dead Until Dawn
> and a cute little mini-beach-chair that could hold your book
> cleverly in place while your hands remained free to
> coppertone yourself and sip at your banana colada.)  I
> strode purposefully forward and spoke to a B&N associate
> who was busy moving undershelf IVs to the premier topshelf
> spot.  "How is it selling?" I asked her. 
> "Has there been a big rush?"  She looked at me
> with a mixture of, I think, pity and sympathy, the way one
> gazes upon slightly deranged people.  "Well, I guess
> it's doing fine.  Another person bought one earlier
> today."  "Is that person still in the
> store?" I eagerly queried, hoping to meet a live
> Pynchonoid without having to travel to NYC or Boston. 
> "Oh I don't think so; it was hours ago."  I
> lingered by the display, thinking I might yet catch a
> Pynchonoid in the wild, but no such luck.  I did, however,
> witness three different teenaged girls (one Goth, one punk,
> one preppy) each grab her copy of Dead Until Dawn.
> 
>  
> On 8/4/09, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> So.
> I go to Bookshop Santa Cruz today (8/3) and lo and behold I
> find Imperial by W.T.Vollman on the shelf (and I thought it
> was supposed to be out a few days after IV) and so I have to
> buy it cause I rilly like Bill and so I ask them at BSC will
> you sell me Pynchons latest today and of course they say no
> we cant do that....sigh....
> 
> So now I have Imperial which looks really good and I know I
> cant read it for a long time cause Im gonna have to read IV
> twice and and...shit....
> Life is good.....
> Z.
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