Library of America

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, it would....one would hope that they would feel that this canonization, as with the Plaides' edition status in France, after which the L of A was largely modeled, would only end up selling more copies of
their individual, now paperback, editions....

There has to be a kind of 'consensual pressure' among all publishers to allow rights if L of A wanted? (I know someone who worked there. I'll see if he would respond to the question.)

First, Bellow's first volume and Roth's four are the first volumes published when the writer was alive. But it is 'the wave of the future' but when the wave for TRP?, I can hardly even guess....Took 200 years for the best and the brightest in lit history to begin to 'get' Hamlet's greatness.....

Do we remember the announced Everyman edition of GR, I think it was, that was never published? I'd like to know THAT publishing story.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_America



--- On Fri, 9/4/09, David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov> wrote:

> From: David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov>
> Subject: RE: Re: Library of America
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, "umberto rossi" <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 10:26 AM
> Would be interesting to know how
> Bellow, Roth and Welty's publisher(s) decided it was worth
> their while to share the market with new, competing
> editions. Would Penguin, Holt, Little Brown, Viking,
> Lippincott (HarperCollins now), etc., all feel the same way
> about TRP?
> 
> 
> All finest,
> 
> David Kipen
> Literature Director, National Reading Initiatives
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> Sorry about this, and thanks.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]
> On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:20 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org;
> umberto rossi
> Subject: RE: Re: Library of America
> 
> Did Saul Bellow or Philip Roth need L of A. canonization?
> 
> It could only help TRP being 'taken seriously' as a writer
> NOT just for Academics to write about, but to
> read.....[which I do hear and read]
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/4/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> > Subject: RE: Re: Library of America
> > To: "pynchon-l at waste.org"
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:41 AM
> > On 4 Sep 2009 at 9:35, David Kipen
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dick is the bestselling volume in Library of
> America
> > history, so they say.
> > > How long before it's Tom's turn?
> >
> > Well, those are two different stories... Dick was not
> such
> > a prestigious
> > writer (no wonder that one of his novel's called
> > Confessions of a Crap
> > Artist), and he needed that act of canonization (which
> was
> >
> > masterminded, they say, by his literary heir Mr J.
> Lethem).
> > Does
> > Pynchon really need the LoA to boost his reputation?
> > _____________
> > umberto rossi
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
>