Paperback editions of Against the Day have appeared in the USA and in the UK, and by odd coincidence, the painting used on the US edition (Nose Dive on the City, Tullio Crali, 1939) already appeared on these pages not so very long ago. I discovered this when I traced a delinquent feed in my aggregator back to Basileios’s Against the Day blog, which evidently ran into terminal difficulties early in the year, and moved from Movable Type to WordPress, whose feed was altogether different. As it happens, neither of us kept up with AtD-related posts through our first reading. I finished the book a couple of months ago, and failed to mention it here. While I enjoyed it, and believe it’s possibly TRP’s best written book, the sheer scale and scope of the thing defied easy summary, let alone “review”.
The AtD wiki has a few observations on the paperback editions. Most of the typos and errata have been corrected, but advises that the UK paperback has different pagination to the first edition (at some late stage it was apparently decided that the book would be published in ‘B’ format, although the advance readers’ copies were in the larger ‘C’ format) and that the type in the UK edition is very small…
There is a new line of urban wear at department stores. Next to the Ecco, Roca Wear and Living Research Group, there is now “Lot 29″ brand. I don’t know why.