A Novel Marketplace Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction Evan Brier "A Novel Marketplace will contribute significantly to the revision of our understanding of '50s fiction production in the United States. Evan Brier has written an impressive work to which readers will turn for much-needed elucidation and instruction on a topic that helps to galvanize the historical study of mid-twentieth-century fiction."--Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly...