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That's it. Why is that?

To show you how close he is...after In Cold Blood came out and was, of course, a sensation...and the four installments in The New Yorker.

Oh, I was just glued to it. We got The New Yorker the next two weeks.

We were outraged that so many people were reading it in The New Yorker.

It didn't make any difference.

Well, it was The New Yorker editors‘idea. They started it.

I don't think that it hurt the sale. Do you?

Sure it did.

I think that more people who read the magazine pieces wanted to read the book.

The book was an enormous, number one best-seller from the day that it was published, and the first two or three weeks sold about 50,000 copies a week. You never saw anything like it.