Following his discharge, Ginzburg worked briefly at NBC, then joined Look magazine as circulation promotion manager. He also worked for Reader's Digest, Collier's, and, as he put it, "other pillars of communications industry respectability". An article he wrote during his spare time, An Unhurried View of Erotica, impressed Esquire's publisher Arnold Gingrich, and therefore he was offered a job as articles editor at Esquire. During his times there, he expanded the article to a 20,000-word manuscript and published it as a book. This rather scholarly seeming book explored an ostensible undercurrent of pornography that runs throughout English literature. Beginning with a manuscript given by Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, to his cathedral in 1070 through to the outright pornographic work of the 1950s, "An Unhurried View" examines examples of English erotic literature in an interpretive and explanatory context. The end of the book includes a bibliography of 100 titles. He convinced the notable psychoanalyst Theodor Reik to write the introduction.The book sold more than 125,000 copies in hardback and over 200,000 in print, showing Ginzburg a large potential market for this kind of publication as well as his talents in the mailing business.