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- How Armed Services Editions—softcover books designed especially to fit in soldiers’ pockets during WWII—finally made the mass market paperback popular in America. | Atlas Obscura
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- “There’s nothing inherently exciting about any narrative move: it’s only exciting if it works . . . Everything else is gimmickry.” A profile of Jennifer Egan. | The Guardian
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