How Printing Innovations (and More) Created an Enduring Class Divide in Books
Jane Friedman
JULY 2, 2024
At the time, “genius” meant creativity.) Others railed that penny dreadfuls debased prose, corrupted youth, and caused crime. Meanwhile, owners of newsstands and candy and dry goods stores happily offered pulp books, which remained hugely popular until World War II, when government rationing of wood pulp destroyed the genre.
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