The Review Review
"We Are Making Birds, Not Birdcages": An Interview with Michael Dumanis, Editor of Bennington Review
Abstract
Bennington Review was originally founded in 1966 by Laurence J. Hyman, the son of Stanley Edgar Hyman and Shirley Jackson. The first iteration of the magazine focused on publishing work by distinguished faculty and alumni — Bernard Malamud, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Burke, but gradually more and more work came from outside the college community, and the magazine increasingly received national attention. In 1978, Bennington Review was relaunched as a highly visible national journal. Under editors Robert Boyers and later Nicholas Delbanco, Bennington Review became a testing ground for contemporary arts and letters, publishing work by such established figures as John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Dillard, and John Ashbery, and by emerging writers like David Remnick and Louis Menand. Fifty years after its original founding and thirty years after its last issue, in 1985, Bennington Review is resuming publication, with poet Michael Dumanis as Editor.
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s)
Recommended Citation
Dumanis, Michael and Stern, Jennifer
(2020)
""We Are Making Birds, Not Birdcages": An Interview with Michael Dumanis, Editor of Bennington Review,"
The Review Review: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
DOI: 10.33972/trr.44
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/trr/vol1/iss1/11
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