According to this 2006 Associated Press piece, one Vonnegut novel (Slaughterhouse-Five) had four times the sales of 6 major novels by Mailer & Styron.pic.twitter.com/jHHTg80be3
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According to this 2006 Associated Press piece, one Vonnegut novel (Slaughterhouse-Five) had four times the sales of 6 major novels by Mailer & Styron.pic.twitter.com/jHHTg80be3
that is not how i read it. putting aside the decision's correctness, how often have we expressed astonishment at decisions that failed to take into account in-house reactions as an anticipation of outside reactions? someone said: "this sounds 'bad'" to the modern ear...it does
Cancelled on his centenary? That’s cold. If only he were around to write an essay on it. (Agree with you on his political writings.)
Heavens! Two people think these ravings are worth reading. Something else I need to look at
That’s because Mailer (and for that matter, Roth) is grossly overrated
A decision like that is usually made at a meeting, where a junior staffer might have made the point that this one couldn't be left out and would require some major contextualisation if it were left in.
Sounds plausible.
do they have some hold on the ability to publish? i don't really care about random house's internal politics. and these operations seem routinely responsive to staff disgruntlement. as long as the estate is still able to publish seems fine. i agree that these r important ...
Library of America recently did a volume collecting 4 of Mailer's 1960s books, which Random House doesn't have a lock (and in fact I think LOA volume might have led Random House to think market for Mailer is saturated).
"The White Negro" is already in the recent Mind of an Outlaw collection so it isn't needed so they can go ahead without it. I do hope they include "In the Red Light," a truly prophetic account of the 1964 GOP convention (Goldwater) that foresees the 60s with startling clarity.
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