I am a day late

[Laura Kelber]

I have a memory of a late-night TV commercial for Gravity's Rainbow.
Probably a false memory. Or is it? They definitely used to have low-budget
TV commercials for books back then.

Laura

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 6:32 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> to posting a happy birthday salute to Gravity's Rainbow, published 46 years
> ago yesterday, February 28, 1973.
>
> A masterpiece came across the Times Book Review skyline.
>
> I can almost remember it like it was yesterday. (probably, mostly, a
> recreated memory)
>
> I was interviewing for a job in Connecticut and visited a Waldenbooks where
> two hardcover copies
> were hanging out low on a back wall.....I did not yet even know there was a
> paperback,---I think that store must have
> mistakenly gotten hardcovers--- so I treated myself to a hardcover....
>
> Back at my Pittsburgh bookselling job, I saw and then bought a paperback to
> read ruggedly. The book needed that.
>
> Dear Gentle Reader, I got the job.
>
> And did a window featuring it  much later when it won the National Book
> Award anyway. (Without Pynchon
> accepting that award). I think the window sold one copy, to a Frenchwoman,
> showing me in person how
> literary prizes matter in France.
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>