“As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors’ Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yogurt.”
Calvin Trillin
more infosource: “Publisher’s Lunch,” in Uncivil Liberties (New Haven: Ticknor & Friends, 1982), 22.
category: author, book, publisher, shelf life
medium: magazine column
notes: originally published in Trillin's "Uncivil Liberties" column in The Nation, June 24, 1978.
shelf life