Ladies and germs, Summer '09 Status Galleys!

[Robin Landseadel]

Leon Neyfakh in the New York Observer

Consensus seems to be that the ultimate status galley this season has  
been Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, but actually it’s coming out in  
three weeks, and according to Tracy Locke, the publicist at Penguin  
Press, finished books are already being sent out relatively widely.  
But for a while there, only a very few people could claim to possess  
the ARC: per Ms. Locke, “They were ... on a very, very, very limited  
galley distribution. Basically what I did was I looked at what  
people’s deadlines were, so I went to all the monthlies first, and I  
sent them out as late as possible. It certainly would qualify as a  
status galley—we did our best to keep it under wraps.”

http://www.observer.com/2009/media/ladies-and-germs-your-summer-09-status-galleys