Check out that Lawrence Van Gelder squib in today’s arts section about Flann O’Brien getting a boost from Lost when a copy of The Third Policeman appeared on screen in an October episode. “Within two days of the broadcast,” Van Gelder informs us, “10,000 copies were sold.” As it turns out, that’s pretty much what The Book Standard predicted would happen when they wrote about this shortly after the episode aired…and even that was after the September article anticipating the boom.