Hey Drum & John,

I have heard a lot about this book and _base_d on your bringing it up in this thread, I headed on over to Amazon Canada to order it!

Lo and Behold -- none in stock and the delay is 3-4 months! I was wondering what was amiss until I read this article tonight:

More than 130 independent publishers across the country were hurled into financial crisis on Dec. 29 with the bankruptcy of the parent company of Publishers Group West, the Berkeley firm that distributes books from much of the small press world.

What a shame! In the article it states that McSweeney's had expected to receive $600,000 -- much of that from the sale of What Is the What. Profits from the book had been promised to a charity helping Sudanese refugees. With the bankruptcy, those profits seemed to have vanished.

Dan