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Our Critics, Right or Wrong. V Literary Salesmen
Marshall, Margaret | December 18, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the literary criticism in various journals. The journals, the Herald Tribune Books, the Saturday Review of Literature, the New York Times Book Review, and the literary section of the New Masses have been examined in respect to their usefulness as critical guides to literature during the past ten years. According to the author, literature is art, but it is, at the same time, merchandise. Publishers cannot print only good books, even if they want to, for there are nor in one season enough to go even once around. Publishers' lists, then, are substantially composed of mediocre books, heavily advertised as "good" or "great."

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CRITICISM; LITERATURE; BOOKS; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHERS & publishing; ART
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