“The Sam Weller Bump”

“Bigger than the Zuckerberg Bump, bigger even than the Colbert Bump or the Oprah Bump—arguably the most historic bump in English publishing is the Sam Weller Bump.” A look at the surprising and overwhelming success of Dicken‘s first novel, The Pickwick Papers, from The Paris Review.

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.