On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and some airy speculation

[Michael Bailey]

> 6) the on-sale date for "Mason & Dixon" was changed at the last publishing
> minute, so to speak.
> Very unusual. Changed from April 14, I believe, to April 28. Years later I
> learned that April 28th
> was Richard Farina's birthday---or the day he died, can't remember because I can
> always look it up.
>

I couldn't find the on-sale date for M&D in the time (I) allotted. But...

Richard Fariña
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (Redirected from Richard Farina)

Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American
writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture
scene of the early- to mid-sixties and the budding folk rock scene of
the same era.



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