The Book-of-the-Month Club is a subscription book service that has played an important role in the United States publishing industry since the 1920s.
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Book-of-the-Month Club Term Timeline in On Writing Well
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Chapter 11: Nonfiction as Literature
In the early 1900s, Americans mostly read fiction. The Book-of-the-Month Club mailed them novels, and popular magazines mainly published short stories. But during World War II,...
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Chapter 12: Writing About People: The Interview
...York Public Library, the department heads at Sotheby’s auction firm, and the editors of the Book-of-the-Month Club . The most interesting stories are usually “locked inside people’s heads.”
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