Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe's latest novel is not doing well as reported by several book news sources, including Nielsen's BookScan. (Remember this book won Wolfe the British award for the worst writing about sex?) It is available at half the published cover price in brick bookstores and even less in virtualities. See I Am Charlotte Simmons. Even with such discounting, Farrar, Straus & Giroux denied the book's sales are less than expected, explaining that this is a marketing technique to keep it on best-seller lists. Uh huh.

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