Hi, It's me again. Mr. Surface State...goes out for Bailey

[Mark Kohut]

*Shadow Ticket* is selling like beer in Milwaukee in the old days. Before
all them artsy--craftsy beers.

Bookstores bought it well upfront since Pyncjhoon and all those years and
an "accessible" detective novel....
And they ran out as fast as the gross for* One Battle after Another. *

*Fact: Gravity's Rainbow* sold like a pot a gold was at the end; hit that
ole NYT Bestseller list like it was a page turner and even revolved there a
while--
but remember there was a more affordable paperback edition that TRP made
happen.

Shaky hole-filled memories since ----Philip Roth so accurately spoke of one
thing that happens in old age; your mind gets holes.....Lay something down
and
it falls into the hole of not even remembering you put it *somewhere *and
clear Proust-like memories lose some surround sound, so to speak, so
distrust my
later publishing and bookstore memories of P's subsequent books but I don't
think any of them sold this early so well like ST is...

*Mason & Dixxon* and *Against the Day* were oversold to bookstores, which
is why you can still find first editions of M & D in the
remainder market....(I am waiting for some to hit Dollar Tree!--yes, I am
exaggerating but I did buy more than a few cheaply as gifts years after
publication.)

Bookstore shortages as reorders get placed...Reprints so that that first
edition is sold through.