I went home over spring break and noticed that the book my mom was currently reading was The Woman in the Window, which we talked about with that crazy New Yorker article about Dan Mallory's lying. She mentioned it at dinner one night, to which I said that I had heard about it, and she said when she picked it up at the library, she had a conversation with another patron again about the NYer story.
So I thought about that old adage, "All publicity is good publicity," and that Mallory's infamy does seem to be getting him read. Maybe within our class some of us after reading that story agreed that we would avoid him for not wanting to support a person like that, but infamy drives interest, too. His publisher deciding to continue their contract with him definitely has landed on that side of the matter. "Will it sell," indeed.
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