For those interested in publishing and the vagaries and acceptance and rejection, Publisher's Lunch tells us:

"Today we are treated to two new installments on traditional publishing tales that we're sure would leave an innocent visitor from Mars thoroughly confused: Tom Wolfe's I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS is a bust because reviewers hated it and it has only sold 250,000 Bookscan-tracked copies or so (NYT), while Sam Lipsyte's HOME LAND is triumphant, published after being turned down by 30 editors and selling a little over 2,000 Bookscan-tracked trade paperbacks in six weeks. Curiously, both stories lead back to Farrar, Straus."

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage4.asp