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Julia Child's Climb to the Top of the Bestseller List, 48 Years Later

August 24, 2009
By Sarah Weinman

When a book reaches #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List almost 50 years after its initial publication, as Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking did with the August 30 list, naturally news outlets – especially the NYT – are going to take notice and figure out why this would be so, and especially why it would be selling more than 22,000 copies in a given week, more copies than were sold in any full year since the book’s appearance, as per Knopf. “In a month, I’ve sold almost seven times what I sell, typically, in a […]

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