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Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that includes not only...
2) Hemingway and his conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the making of American celebrity culture
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Paying close attention to the emergent mass marketplace of the 1920s and early 1930s, Hemingway and His Conspirators goes beyond other books to show how Hemingway and his work were packaged, marketed, and sold in the early years of his career. Max Perkins, the editor known to us for his prowess in cultivating writers and manuscripts, is here revealed as a brilliant marketer who weighed the public effects of certain word choice, arranged for magazine...
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