The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber

The Big Time was originally serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1958 (A two-parter featured in the March and April issues).

Gutenberg link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32256
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Time

An interesting review: http://www.conceptualfiction.com/the_big_time.html

Lieber papers at U-Texas: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uhsc/00021/hsc-00021.html

old stuff