5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah,, but most libraries buy even single trade paperbacks from reviews---or to 
replace hardcovers---and those reissues, important as they were for book buyers, 
went under most librarians' radar....

Library of America however means Top O' the Heap.....and you might just imagine 
how many librarians really 

learned something about him with the LofA pitch for his canonicalness....

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
<lorentzen at hotmail.de>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 3:31:43 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies

All, or almost all, of the novels in those two PKD collections from LoA were 
already in print at the time, but they were available only in trade paperback 
editions, which are not sturdy for library use: Vintage Library publishes them; 
I have the ones for Ubik and The Man in the High Castle. Vintage did a good job 
of re-releasing most of Dick's novels, tho' the volumes cried out for 
introductory essays to educate this potential new generation of readers.

I would like to see more attention paid to his mainstream novels -- a couple of 
them are quite fine: Confessions of a Crap Artist and Puttering About in a Small 
Land.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>; "pynchon -l" 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies


Here is a, perhaps interesting, bit of book industry fact with one major reason
to explain it.

The Library of America Philip K. Dick novels were/are the fastest selling LofA
yet published. (Many
much older volumes have higher sales over their longer in print time)

Some say it is because the Lof A sorta went slumming in "popular
fiction"........Most know that that
is wrong and ignorant in a number of ways BUT...............

Sales of LofA Dick, however, are mich higher than say, Cheever, Roth and Updike
into libraries BECAUSE
unlike those LofA authors libraries had almost no PK Dick in stock because he
was published as
pulp fiction mostly, no marketing campaigns, few reviewers' copies, no
hardcovers, etc.......

I hope his estate, his kids, are getting (relatively) rich showing good karmic
adjustment...



----- Original Message ----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 7:41:00 AM
Subject: Re: 5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies


When I read "Ubik" I thought that all that plundering by movies and TV --- 
"Brazil", "Futurama" and
"Matrix" come to mind first --- does not even come close to the enthralling
effect of the book itself.

They should have given PKD the National Book Award for this masterpiece.

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