The magazine's reputation was such that several "thick" journals took interest in Nemirovich-Danchenko and his documentary prose.

He gazed dispiritedly at the thick journals filled with the scribblings of all the priests who had preceded him in St. Albans.

The thick literary journals so recently devoured by millions founder for lack of paper and new themes.

The most popular substitute for books are the "thick journals," literary monthlies that often run to 300 pages of first-run novels, short stories, criticism, reviews and ideology.

"We have some that are sort of homemade, stapled together in somebody's basement, and then you have the very thick journals, professionally bound," Ms. Lockward said.

They spent days at a time together, talking late into the night, poring through thick journals and committing memories to tape cassettes.

The estimated production of books and thick journals can be put close to one thousand per year and more than one million copies.

He had filled three thick journals in quick succession... They were something into which he'd poured all his conflicting emotions, trying to make sense out of his thoughts.

Most of what Meg had brought her was thick professional journals and catalogs.

It was a small and untidy room crammed full to the ceiling with books and thick journals.