The Boston Phoenix, Book Affair, 1976

Book Affair, Inc. was a small press distribution project started by Ploughshares' founder DeWitt Henry. Book Affair helped establish the state funding of literary magazines in Massachusetts. With funding from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the project subsidized library purchases of small press books and literary magazine subscriptions. Book Affair also received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to host a yearly book fair with exhibits, panels, and a local reading series. The Book Affair project helped educate readers and librarians in the purpose and nature of literary magazines, and it also broadened the subscription base of Ploughshares.

This subseries contains catalogues, publicity materials, correspondence, and a project narrative and budget as submitted to the NEA.