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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 "shell-shock" or "battle fatigue;" some of those suffering from it are labeled cowards by their superiors or the public.
Today: What is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder is widely recognized by psychologists and other doctors as a terrible, but treatable, mental illness.
1940s: J. D. Salinger is known by readers of the New Yorker and other magazines as an up-andcoming talent.
Today: Approximately forty years since Salinger stopped publishing his work and withdrew...
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