Not Pynchon, but went around originally

[Mark Kohut]

Self-Published Novelist Lands University of Chicago Press Book Deal
In May, the University of Chicago Press will publish A Naked Singularity, a 700-page debut novel that Sergio De La Pava self-published in 2008 through Xlibris.  The story behind the book deal may inspire more literary authors to self-publish. In an email, Chicago Press promotions director Levi Stahl recounted how he discovered the self-published book: late in 2010 I read a review by Scott Bryan Wilson in the Quarterly Conversation that said the... read more>>
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