American Little Magazines Since 1950: Charting Many Histories

Authors

Thom Caraway, Whitworth UniversityFollow

Abstract

As lit mag enthusiasts know, Little Magazines cuts off in 1947. It details the magazines of the Modernist period quite well, as several other excellent comprehensive resources do. The three-volume Oxford Cultural History series on literary magazines details the work of various little magazines in the US, UK, Europe, and Ireland, but gets no further than 1950. Tri-Quarterly’s excellent “documentary” issue of 1978 surveys several editors of significant magazines in the intervening period, and they provide engaging statements of purpose, origin stories, and “biographical” sketches of their particular magazines. More recent volumes like Spreading the Word, Paper Dreams, and Contemporary Literary Magazines follow a similar model, and those volumes do a great job of capturing the voices of the founding or then-current editors of benchmark magazines. But those volumes lack the magic of Little Magazines.

Recommended Citation

Caraway, Thom (2020) "American Little Magazines Since 1950: Charting Many Histories," The Review Review: Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 7.
DOI: 10.33972/trr.185
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/trr/vol2/iss2/7

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