How does pynchy make money?
By being a NYT best selling author whose works have been continually in print.
He only does the blowjobs thing for funsies, even though he makes money from it too
>>7844455
These things called royalties
memeing
writing shitting dude weed lmao genre fiction that tryhards try to read depth into
>>7844477
MacArthur Grants help...
>>7844477
His books havent been out of print. You dont think he still earns from all those college kids buying overpriced copies of CoL49 every single year?
Autism bucks
>>7844455
As Luis suarez he plays for Barcelona FC
>>7844477
GR sold about 5 million copies. If each copy sold at $15 each (lowball estimate) and Tom got 10% of that he'd have got $1.5 per copy sold - $7,500,000. He could easily live on the interest alone.
>>7844564
What's more, he'd live like the fuckin' prez. Not too shabby for one book if you ask me.
>>7844455
Shitposting on /lit/ and /pol/
>>7844589
/r9k/ is probably more his speed
>>7844598
No, this is the only board I post on.
>>7844477
He broke bad
>>7844564
Where do you get that figure? I honestly doubt it's sold more than maybe 500-600,000 copies.
>>7844598
Why? I would have gone with s4s
>>7844816
Apparently V. and Crying of Lot 49 sold 3 million each. GR is substantially better-known than those books, so I guessed it sold a bit more. (source: http://thomaspynchon.com/thomas-pynchon-1973-letter-to-bruce-allen-and-the-marketing-of-gravitys-rainbow/)
>>7844816
>I honestly doubt it's sold more than maybe 500-600,000 copies.
you fucking mook
do you think pynchon is some kind of underground author that only patricians like you have heard of?
>>7844832
That was interesting to read, thanks. I knew he was well off, but I didn't really see him as some huge commercial success.
