''The Saturday Press'' was a literary weekly newspaper, published in

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from 1858 to 1860 and again from 1865 to 1866, edited by Henry Clapp, Jr. Clapp, nicknamed the "King of Bohemia" and credited with importing the term "

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" 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

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, and

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– all habitués of the bohemian watering hole named

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– in ''The Saturday Press''. Clapp intended the ''Press'' to be New York's answer to the ''

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''. The ''Press'' was constantly troubled by financial problems, and Clapp died in poverty and obscurity.

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's first short story, "

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", was first published under the title "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in ''The Saturday Press'' in 1865.

References

*{{cite web , url=http://upress.kent.edu/books/Lause.htm , Mark A. Lause, The Antebellum Crisis & America's First Bohemians.

External links

*{{cite web , url=http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs/sat/press/ , title=The Saturday Press , work=The Vault at Pfaff's – An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians , author=Edward Whitley, author2= Rob Weidman , display-authors=etal , publisher=

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Digital Library , access-date=April 30, 2010 Offers the possibility to browse online through any of the 157 issues of ''The Saturday Press''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saturday Press (1858) Defunct newspapers published in New York City Defunct weekly newspapers 1858 establishments in New York (state) 1860 disestablishments in New York (state) 1865 establishments in New York (state) 1866 disestablishments in New York (state) Newspapers established in 1858 Newspapers established in 1865 {{NewYork-newspaper-stub