Ace became a regular columnist for "Saturday Review" (formerly "The Saturday Review of Literature"; he liked to suggest cause-and-effect in the magazine's name changing two weeks after his debut in its pages) in the early 1950s. At first, he focused—in what a publisher described (considering his parallel employment writing "for" television) as "nibbling the hand that feeds him"—on television criticism in his usual droll style; a collection of this criticism was published in 1955 as "The Book of Little Knowledge: More Than You Want to Know About Television".