Editing Pynchon?

[Robert Mahnke]

Someone tell me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought that Pynchon's
value to his publisher is that, whether or not they are bestsellers in
the short run, his books are likely to stay in print for a long time.
Likewise, the release of a new Pynchon novel probably spurs sales of
the old ones.

On 8/5/09, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nushra sez:
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> So when they published AGTD they thought they had a best seller? That's silly.
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> Not really, as far as literary fiction goes.  Pynchon's books sell quite well, and the publication of a new one is a big event in publishing circles.  They may not sell at Da Vinci Code levels (or for that matter, self-help crap like the Secret, which leaves most fiction in the dust, sales wise), but as far as the publishing industry is concerned, Agin'TD was a bestseller.  As was expected.
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>  Chris
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> "A good laugh is the best pesticide."
> -Vladimir Nabokov
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