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The History of Literature #140 – Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel (with Charles Ardai)
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3981967103.mp3 In 1896, an enterprising man named Frank Munsey published the first copy of Argosy, a magazine that combined cheap printing, cheap paper, and cheap authors to bring affordable, high-entertainment fiction to working-class folks. Within six years, Argosy was selling a half a million copies a month, and the American fiction market would never be Continue reading
