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1940s: Magazine fiction is a hot commodity: a nation of readers seeks entertainment in the pages of periodicals like the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire.
Today: Although the New Yorker still stands as the premiere source for cutting-edge short fiction, more and more short story writers find their work first published in specialized literary journals.
1940s: The psychological toll of war on a person's mind is called "shellshock" or ‘‘battle fatigue;’’ some of those suffering from it are labeled...
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