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From a Times article about Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, the 900-page debut novel which just won the Prix Goncourt—

Gallimard, which received the manuscript under a French pseudonym and planned to publish only 12,000 copies, has used paper reserved for the new Harry Potter book to print thousands more.

(Time to write the first draft: 112 days).