Comments on: Creating a Nation of Readers

By: Bert E.

Bert E. — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:55:00 +0000

Army day rooms until just recently often had the entire Matt Bolan series of pulp fiction novels. At least good reading for the enlisted men and relieve boredom. As for the mental development, well, at least they were reading.

By: Mostly Cajun

Mostly Cajun — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:54:49 +0000

My dad, a WW II navy veteran, said they’d take a paperback and tear it into several sections, the better to pass around for maximizing readership. He said in one memorable case the section containing the outcome of a mystery novel disappeared with its first reader, causing the entire crew of the ship to speculate wildly about the outcome of the story.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:43:38 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if this didn’t go a long way towards creating the post-war pre-Vietnam “Middlebrow Culture” so hated by the counterculture, and so beloved by people like me…