Earlier this week, in noting the non-bestselling track record of Dog Days, I observed aloud that I had forgotten to ask about the comparative performance of Jessica Cutler's The Washingtonienne during its opening weeks last summer. Well, a little bird told me, and now I'm telling you: As noted before, Ana Marie Cox (left) has sold sold roughly 3,800 copies of Dog Days in its first three weeks of publiciation; that turns out to be two weeks faster than it took Cutler to reach the same benchmark. But keep in mind that Cox's third week in stores also saw a 37.5% dropoff in sales from the week before, while Cutler's sales nearly doubled (+175%) in the similar timeframe, and continued to rise for the next five weeks.