I am a day late

[Arthur Fuller]

All your missives compel me to go back to the beginning, and re-read *V*.
After that, I shall re--read  them all in order.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:43 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>


-- 
Arthur