NOT P, hardly close, but so finely fun...Nicholson Baker writes about publishing in 1920 like an historian bookseller

[Mark Kohut]

with just conversational snippets of the books, their publishing, many
reviews and factoids.
Includes Eliot and Joyce and a great remark on Pound and *Ulysses* and *Women
in Love* and the law.
and how Wells did it and got rich and* Moon-Calf,* an Iowa fave.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/reading-1920s-essay-nicholson-baker/