A lot of people have claims to helping “make” Paul Harding’s TINKERS work in the marketplace. The Boston Globe has a nice piece on the topic, though in mangling the chronology of things they confuse the record as much as clarify. And we’re still looking for the independent booksellers who helped recognize Tinkers was special early on, along with Bellevue’s distributor Consortium, to spotlight their roles even further. So here’s a little bit of a timeline: * As we first read in the Wall Street Journal, it was Jonathan Rabinowitz at Turtle Point Press who passed the manuscript to Erika […]
