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The Saturday Evening Post Posted May 24, 2009 @ 9:47 am In Numbers,Seven | No Comments |
"Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday Evening Post.—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms."
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925).
"The Saturday Evening Post stories were usually light and not usually literary. They were often amusing. That kind of fiction just isn't read much any more. Situation comedies and dramas on TV take up that audience. The literary magazines continue to publish serious fiction, as does the New Yorker and Harper's...I don't think literary short stories ever sold very well."
—Joyce Carol Oates in Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, "On Writing in the Public Sphere: Talking With Joyce Carol Oates," The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2006.
"During the early years, the biggest obstacle to air transportation was fear and suspicion. Fledgling airlines turned to influential passengers, such as humorist Will Rogers, to bolster public confidence. Rogers wrote a two-part article in 1928 for the Saturday Evening Post, detailing his adventures on a trip from Los Angeles to New York and back that required multiple airplanes and multiple stops."
—J. Lynn Lunsford, "Even Coach Was Nice: Recalling an airline era when the skies really were friendly," The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2009.
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