Tweet from The Penguin Press (@penguinpress)

[Lemuel Underwing]

Would not surprised Monte, and I'd rather this one be the Big Seller than,
say, IV which seems significantly weaker to me...
though I was like 9 years old when M&D came out, I remember reading about
its pretty long stay on the NYT Bestsellers list


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That comment from a B & N buyer was with awareness of national sales
> numbers, so Monte is probably already right.
>
>
>    *From:* Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
> *To:* 'Markekohut' <markekohut at yahoo.com>; 'pynchon -l' <
> pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:25 AM
> *Subject:* RE: Tweet from The Penguin Press (@penguinpress)
>  **
> Based on
> (1)    the large number and concentrated timing of reviews and articles
> (well played, Penguin)
> (2)    their consensus that this is “approachable Pynchon” rather than
> “daunting uberbrain Pynchon,” regardless of the reviewers’ evaluation
> (3)    the high density of book purchasers and purchase-influencers in
> NYC and especially on the Upper West Side
> (4)    the plentiful hooks for both East Coast digerati (“what’s his take
> on Silicon Alley and the dotcom boom/bust?”) and almost everyone else
> (“what’s his take on 9/11?”)…
>
> I’ll be surprised if BE doesn’t sell significantly more out of the gate
> than any of P’s previous books.
>
>
>
> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Markekohut
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:11 AM
> *To:* pynchon -l
> *Subject:* Fwd: Tweet from The Penguin Press (@penguinpress)
>
> Seems Penguin Press has done the T--shirt and is getting shots of foax in
> it around NYC.
>
>
>
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