"I firmly believed I was writing my little arty book that would sell maybe two to three thousand copies and retire with a certain battered dignity to the remainder table".
Fifty years ago, the book was rescued from the remainder table, Juster recalls, when a rhapsodic review appeared in this magazine, by Emily Maxwell (who was, among many other things, the wife of the longtime New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell), and then children readers instantly, mysteriously, took to it.
I never purge those, and they will be sent to a library after I've passed on to the remainder table.
Of the 63 gene fragments in which SNPs were discovered, 23 had a single SNP and multiple SNP loci were detected in the remainder (Table 1).
IN these post-cold-war days, with formerly hot spy thrillers on the remainder table, the spook business has taken to the Internet with a warmer, friendlier image, to let the public know that it is still there and, by the way, is even looking for help.
"I thought, O.K., it will come out, and end on the remainder table".
"They were creatures from the black lagoon of the remainder table" — Christmas recipes and the like, selected with no apparent thought.
Mr. Romney is so irrelevant now that's it tempting to let his comments gather dust on the remainder table of history.
The authors receive 80% of the revenue more per copy than is typical and Lulu avoids the risk of printing books that end up on the remainder table or in warehouses, or being destroyed.
These three authors, the once mighty phallocrats of American letters, were supposed to be past it by now -- packed off, by writers and critics like Dave Eggers and Sven Birkerts, to the rest home and the remainder table -- and here they are, not only still writing well but giving us characters of a certain age who, like their authors, refuse to get off the page.
