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Philip Roth, in “Reading Myself and Others,” called the unsent letter “a flourishing subliterary genre with a long and moving history.”

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

In their candid moments, most publishers will admit going into business with writers whose work they regard as subliterary because they believe that they can profit from their books.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2017

Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924, and it made its money mostly, and happily, with subliterary fare.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

Memoirs were dismissed as unseemly, sensationalistic, and subliterary.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2015

Ned Ward of Grubstreet; a study of subliterary London in the eighteenth century.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office