(The paperback has sold 1,044.)ĭon’t expect Hazelden to rush the book back into print and offer clues to the summer of 1982. And BookScan reveals that the biggest seller among Judge’s five titles is the hardcover edition of “ Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington’s Only World Series Championship,” which sold 1,268 copies. The recent scandal has lifted sales of the e-book edition of Judge’s “ A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ’n’ Roll.” (It was No. book retailers, launched in 2001, and the sales tracking for small presses in the early days of BookScan may have been spotty, according to industry sources. A Nielsen BookScan sales report reveals that eighty sales of “Wasted” have been “Recorded to Date,” which is dataspeak for “since the book was published.” That number, however, is likely misleading, since BookScan, which tracks sales for an estimated seventy to eighty-five per cent of U.S. “I would think that selling a few thousand copies of a self-help book like that would be a reasonable success for a small press like that,” a publisher of a major New York imprint said. So how many copies of “Wasted” are there? And where have they gone? A representative for Hazelden Publishing, the nonprofit that released the book in 1997, said he did not know offhand what the initial print run of the book was. And, given Senator Jeff Flake’s surprising reversal on Friday, the F.B.I. “You’d have to ask him.” Kavanaugh responded. “Are you the Bart O’Kavanaugh that he’s referring to? Yes or no?” Leahy said. This is frustrating news to anyone looking to go beyond the heated exchange during Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, when the Vermont senator asked the controversial Supreme Court nominee if he was the soused character in “Wasted.” But even that was a dead end, as clicking through to the actual listing takes users to a page missing a “buy” button. Searches of bookseller databases, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, AbeBooks, Google, and dozens of other sites turned up only one other listing, via, on Amazon’s store in France, for a bargain price of two hundred and twenty-six dollars. According to eBay, the listing for the two-hundred-and-fifty-page memoir was getting seventy-one views per hour before a seller named Lostabet received a winning bid. available on the Internet sold Friday afternoon, for eight hundred and fifty dollars. The last known available copy of the memoir in the U.S. One day after Brett Kavanaugh danced around questions from Senator Patrick Leahy about the vomit- and blackout-filled incidents recounted in Judge’s book and attributed to a character named Bart O’Kavanaugh-anecdotes that Kavanaugh called “fictionalized”-you couldn’t buy a copy online of “Wasted” for love nor money. The most talked-about book in America-Mark Judge’s “ Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk”-is one of the rarest books in the land. The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh called the vomit- and blackout-filled incidents recounted in Mark Judge’s book from 1997 “fictionalized.”
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