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

[Prashant Kumar]

"....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........."

Are there reasons for this other than "it's a big book"? I remember a
review written by someone who refused to read it due to its size...anyway I
think length is misleading; AtD happens quickly.

P.


On 12 April 2013 12:47, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.........
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>
> In Order, Pynchon's publishers have been:
>
> V.-  J.B. Lippincott
>
> The Crying of Lot 49-  J.B. Lippincott
>
> Gravity's Rainbow-  Viking
>
> Slow Learner-  Little, Brown
>
> Vineland-  Little, Brown
>
> Mason & Dixon- Holt
>
> Against theh Day- Penguin
>
> Inherent Vice- Penguin
>
> 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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