6 is now 4: The Penguin in a Skirt and Moustache

[Markekohut]

Mostly agents and editor driven...Corliss Smith and Faith Sale...ole pal Kirkpatrick's wife...
move to new agent, Ms Jackson.....he and head of Holt, Michael Nauman, had a working
relationship, I've heard....industry rumors since M & D, at least, is that he has no house editor 
as he did w Smith and Sale and Melanie must be his editor....seems Penguin has given her/him
the best deals....another plugged-in editor, when i told him of my love of AtD, within a few months
of publication, said, it will never meet its rumored advance (payment) in sales.....which were
lighter than huge distribution hoped for.........

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On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> In Order, Pynchon's publishers have been:
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> V.-  J.B. Lippincott
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> The Crying of Lot 49-  J.B. Lippincott
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> Gravity's Rainbow-  Viking
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> Slow Learner-  Little, Brown
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> Vineland-  Little, Brown
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> Mason & Dixon- Holt
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> Against theh Day- Penguin
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> Inherent Vice- Penguin
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> The Bleeding Edge- Penguin
>  
> It would seem, from the distant outside, that Pynchon's choice of publisher is driven mainly by economic concerns. Does anyone else have some more insider information about this?
>  
>  
>  
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:20:50 +0100 (BST) 
> From: Matthew Cissell <macissell@[omitted]> 
> Subject: Re: 6 is now 4: The Penguin in a Skirt and Moustache 
> To: Markekohut <markekohut@[omitted]>, 
> 
>  In Al Siverman's "The Time of Their Lives" he quotes Katherine McNamara abo=
> ut a lunch her husband, Lee Goerner of Atheneum, had with Pynchon; at the e=
> nd of the lunch Pynchon said "Only publish good books". This and a number o=
> f other things go to show how TRP is not just a writer but someone invloved=
>  in the the republic of letters and, more specifically, that branch of prod=
> uction called publishing.=0A=0AThe fact that Penguin is being absorbed by B=
> ertelsmann (with that dark mid-20thc. past) can't have escaped the notice o=
> f the author that wrote that Intro for Orwell's 1984 in 2003.=0A=0AAnybody =
> willing to entertain the idea that the publishing world somehow gets worked=
>  in there?
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