Special edition

Now and again something like this happens. As I recall, Harper's dedicated most of an issue to Mailer's "Prisoner of Sex" in the 1960s.

P.S. Actually it was March, 1971.

clipped from www.todayinliterature.com On this day in 1946, John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was published in The New Yorker. The article took up all sixty-eight pages of text space (everything except for the "Goings On" calendar), an unprecedented and unannounced event for the magazine. The story was reprinted, broadcast and published in book form throughout the world, and has never been out of print. Book of the Month Club members received a copy free, because of its "importance at this moment to the human race." When Hersey died in 1993, one obituary called "Hiroshima" the "most famous magazine article ever published."