Every now and then we book-related toilers are reminded (as if we needed to be) just who’s winning the war for people’s attention in today’s cultural battleground. To wit, The New York Times checks in on the case of Flann O’Brien’s admired cult novel The Third Policeman, a copy of which was seen – for a few seconds – on an episode of the hit TV show Lost last fall. “Within two days of the broadcast, 10,000 copies were sold,” says the Times story.

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