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Of course, galleys today might not be printed; they might be electronic or “e-galleys” instead. There has been a service for more than a decade called NetGalley, which makes it easy and much cheaper than it would otherwise be to distribute physical proofs to get the book in front of potential reviewers.
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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
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