Editing Pynchon?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Aug 5 12:00:24 CDT 2009


On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Just another company-wide delusion...Pynchon would understand.
>>  NushraMohamedKhan wrote:
>>
>>> It's absurd to expect that 1085 page novel, a three pound mad
>>> romp, will be a best seller. Sorry, I can't believe anyone could be
>>> so wishful in thought.

Particularly during a time when a series of adventure and magic novels  
aimed at a young-adult readership that expanded to the size of À la  
recherche du temps perdu would become the top seller in all categories  
of book sales and create huge and hard to manage midnight sales of  
these novels at the big-box stores that sold them.

Gad, what the hell were they smoking?

And now, for your dinner and dancing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmL1L3dF6g



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