Goo

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Good evening, everyone.

My name is Lily Sloman, and I'm even- an events coordinator at Politics & Pros bookstore.

Before we get started, if you could take a moment to silence your cell phones, it would be greatly appreciated.

Um, and these are perfect novels, you know, which, and who's gonna write a perfect novel? And then go, "Oh, wait, Beloved," you know? There's a perfect novel.

Oh, shit, Wolf Hall.

[laughs] This is why I have Goodbye, Columbus-

Yeah

They're so amazing." You know, like, the next- the next summer, or that summer, I guess, um, never mind, blew up.

When you guys put out the k- the, uh, the Goo demos, front cover is- is a photo of Cher, and one of the inserts is- is Cher with David Geffen in kind of like an intimate-

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... po- pose.

No?

You know.

The first idea we had for the cover of Goo, we wanted to use a pettibone, and the f- first, um, and we were also aware that, you know, we were making this jump from the indies to the majors, and people were gonna say sellout and all that kinda shit.

And so the first cover proposal we had with Geffen was this pettibone picture of, it was a big line drawing of the face of Joan Crawford, like, with these huge red lips, and it said over the top, "Blowjob" with a question mark.