George Hutchinson's first chapter, "When Literature Mattered," summarizes a brief era unlike any other, when Americans of all classes and backgrounds turned hungrily to novels, plays, and poems, provoked by a "need to recapture the meaning of personal experience." Soldiers who had never picked up a book now read free Armed Services Editions paperbacks"more than […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30AM on February 26, 2019