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New Yorker and so forth. Mine was reviewed in the New York Times Literary Supplement, that's where mine was, a good front page story there. That comes in the Sunday paper, you see.

Anyhow, they were nervous about it, but we all had a little cocktail together--but no company asked in. Then I promptly went off to Maine. But it was a success, you see. The reviews were very good, and it began to sell very well. To my astonishment, it bounced onto the bestseller list right away, almost, after a very brief period.

How high did it go? Were they running that besteseller list in the New York Times then, that far back?

Oh, my dear boy! Do you know how long they've been running that? Forty years. Oh, yes. Certainly for forty years. And they've been doing it the same way, canvassing the same book-sellers. It went up to the Number 1 place, and it was Number 1 on the best-seller list for--oh, I think ten or fifteen weeks.

Did it ever get to a book club? Did the Book-of-the-Month Club take it?

No. Oh, George tried his best to sell it to the Book-of-the-Month Club. They didn't think it would be good. See, you sell those in advance. The Book-of-the-Month