These paragraphs from the close of Mencken’s “The National Letters” essay, published in 1920, were previously printed online at http://www.artsandopinion.com/2022_v21_n6/mencken-nationalletters.htm.
Very good, thank you! "Human interest" stories always grated. Those struck me as shorter versions of "Passion of the Purple Fingernails", as a librarian at the Concord Pike Library termed romance books.
Very good, thank you! "Human interest" stories always grated. Those struck me as shorter versions of "Passion of the Purple Fingernails", as a librarian at the Concord Pike Library termed romance books.