Heroic Labor - washingtonpost.com
The publicity director at a major New York publisher once told me there probably aren’t more than 80,000 regular readers of literary fiction in America.A well-received book of poetry might sell 2,000 copies.
Ron Charles is a senior editor of the Washington Post Book World, so presumably he knows what he is talking about!
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