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

[Mark Kohut]

I keep repeating it---not the first time here---and telling others so that it 
will get
recorded in Pynchon's permanent historical record.....

it is one of those little things that Pynchon does that have meaning but is 
hidden---
like the places that do not exist on any map.  I would think that when Michael 
Nauman
or others who interacted with Pynchon write their memoirs of that, some will 
tell the
small story more fully. My educated guess is that when pub details went to Ms. 
Jackson
and TRP saw them, he asked her to see if the date could be moved....and she made 

it
happen...perhaps the most interesting thing is that April 30 was a Wednesday. 
Most
of these on-sale days for important books is a Tuesday, long story, and now I 
think
I remember that the date was moved from Tuesday the 15th to April 30, another 
bit
of cognitive dissonance I registered and learned this probable reason only 
serendipitously. 

See my summary from the start of this thread. I was working for a sister company 

of Holt's---
and had the pub date of M & D registered since it was Pynchon and I was 
interested..

Then, as I wrote, it got changed late in the publishing cycle---and believe me, 
that is usually a big NO-NO
for a publishing company.....everything is being planned in advance and such a 
change is usually a wrench
into the machine....and IF it happened much, turmoil would reign.............

And retailers would take it out on the offending publisher.....


----- Original Message ----
From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, February 13, 2011 7:23:36 AM
Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and 
some airy speculation

Can I use it elsewhere if it proves useful?

By the way, its hardly work to walk over to a bookshelf and look at a letter 
sent out on March 26 and I've been procrastinating all night.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 7:13 AM
>To: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>, Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and 

>some airy speculation
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>The info comes from me. 
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Sun, February 13, 2011 6:21:14 AM
>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and 


>some airy speculation
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 6:20 AM
>>To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and 
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>>some airy speculation
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>>April 30 is the on sale date for M&D on the letter included with the advanced 
>>reading copy. Where does the info about the change of fdate come from?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 5:55 AM
>>>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and 
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>>>some airy speculation
>>>
>>>> 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 
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>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>"The general agreement is that language should be a kind of honey.  I
>>>like it to be a kind of speed." - Michael Moorcock
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