Shadow Ticket. Group Read 2026. Extra credit (which means not on the text itself.)..

[Laura Kelber]

The millennials (well, two of them) in my family are reading Shadow Ticket,
and I'm guessing Vineland will get some renewed interest. In general,
reading books (like vinyl records before) is in vogue with young people,
along with book clubs. Surprisingly, not one of the eight millennials in my
family has seen OBAA. Maybe books are on the rise at the expense of movies.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026, 1:37 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember the big promotion spreads for M&D (at a bookstore in Brooklyn
> Heights) and for AtD (at Coliseum Books, by that time on 42nd St, near
> NYPL, closed soon after in 2007).
>
> I don't remember IV or BE having such promotion, certainly not ST, at least
> here in NYC
>
> One could argue Pynchon is just not a name that provokes such attention
> anymore, at least with the general reading public.
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Scheduled to be published October 7, just in time for if---I I think it
> > delusional but not because he doesn't deserve it--
> > he won the Nobel...(awarded the next week)...seemingly all finished the
> > usual number of months ahead--or more---maybe they held it back
> > for this propitious award time? Because good books which sell by reviews
> > and word-of-mouth mostly get planned for Earlier a bit, early september
> > or even get them into stores in August---August is the worst month for
> > reviews---"everyone" is supposedly on vacation--so early sales would be
> to
> > fans who learned
> > of it and Pynchon has that cult as we know...
> >
> > Remember how rushed was the publication of* Against the Day*....I have
> > publishing guesses about this for another post...)
> >
> > The publisher tightly controlled all reviewers' copies,allowed no reviews
> > to appear until pub date and anyone who got a lucky
> > Advance copy was also approved and had to promise to not talk about it
> > publicly in any substantive way....a common enough practice
> > for important books, esp non-fiction ones full of factual spoilers and
> > medis grabs....
> >
> > The result of so many reviews hitting all at once....be nice to know how
> > many reviews there were and where is ....the early 'Advanced--advance by
> > being ordered in advance--' copies as
> > we called them flew out of the stores and there was an immediate
> > out-of-stock state--even Amazon.  This state usually creates
> > a supply  judgement problem and some lost sales......( Penguin for this
> one
> > did NOT follow the known lead of the publishers of Mason & Dixon and
> > Against the Day,who overprinted willfully. First editions of Mason &
> Dixon
> > were on remainder tables years later...
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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