The Saturday Press (literary newspaper)
The Saturday Press was the name of a literary weekly newspaper, published in New York from 1858 to 1860 and again from 1865 to 1866, edited by Henry Clapp, Jr.[1]
Clapp, nicknamed the "King of Bohemia" and credited with importing the term "bohemianism" to the U.S, was a central part of the antebellum New York literary and art scene. Today he is perhaps best known for his spotlighting of Walt Whitman, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Ada Clare – all habitués of the bohemian watering hole named Pfaff's beer cellar – in The Saturday Press.[1] Clapp intended the Press to be New York's answer to the Atlantic Monthly. The Press was constantly troubled by financial problems, and Clapp died in poverty and obscurity.[2]
Mark Twain's first short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was first published under the title "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in The Saturday Press in 1865.[3][4]
References
- Lause, Mark A. "The Antebellum Crisis & America's First Bohemians". Retrieved 2013-03-17.
- 1 2 Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7.
- ↑ Arno Basta (1977). "Pfaff's on Broadway – the birthplace of Bohemia". Greenwich Village Gazette. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
- ↑ Mark Twain (November 18, 1865). "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog". The Saturday Press. pp. 248–249.
- ↑ Tom Wolfe (April 24, 2010). "Faking West, Going East". The New York Times.
External links
- Edward Whitley, Rob Weidman; et al. "The Saturday Press". The Vault at Pfaff's – An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians. Lehigh University Digital Library. Retrieved April 30, 2010. Offers the possibility to browse online through any of the 157 issues of The Saturday Press.