About the publication of The Secret Integration

[Mark Kohut]

in 1964 in one of the two great magazines for fiction, The Saturday
Evening Post. One which, under legendary editors, helped "create
America's" sensibility, with huge cultural impact. A 'race' story in
1964, the year---mid-December I learn---so must have been published
before---- the Civil
Rights Act was passed.

F Scott Fitzgerald had over 60 stories published in it and was paid
$4000 per in the twenties, equivalent to about $40,000 these times.
Four or five a year and he (and Zelda) lived well. Source says he
earned over $2 Million from it, or again, around $20 Million our money.

Do Pynchon scholars know what TRP got for it? in decline and with
competition,
it seems prices were still around Roaring Twenties amounts so less with
inflation.
(Interestingly, it seems prices for some writers had gone higher even
in the Depression thirties. Perhaps circulation even rose as a cheap mag
was like a cheap movie need during the worst of times)

>From @1963 on, John O'Hara was getting $3,000 for stories under 14 pages
and $4,000 for longer ones. TRP, Faulkner first novel winner and brand new
talent,
with a good agent, musta got around that? Long story, surely over 14
magazine pages?

Do we know of any reviewers or critics---or even literarily-infused
cultural commentators
who commented on the story at the time it was published---for its subject
matter maybe?
Quick Google Books search gives me only later scholars on it.
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