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I suspect that the public liked it before the pundits.



Yes, I read a book in university (can't remember the exact name) about how high-brow modernism often mingled with 'low-brow' popular press. Extracts of experimental literary fiction appearing in cheap magazines next to ads, that kind of thing.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/pop...

Edit: the book I was thinking of is this. Great read. https://www.routledge.com/Re-Covering-Modernism-Pulps-Paperb...




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