tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post4746358483565030150..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: THE LITTLE MAGAZINE IN AMERICA: A MODERN DOCUMENTARY HISTORY edited by Elliott Anderson and Mary Kinzie (TriQuarterly 43/Pushcart Press 1978)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24565950809129907662016-02-05T15:57:39.677-05:002016-02-05T15:57:39.677-05:00Todd, I never bothered with the British ARGOSY thi...Todd, I never bothered with the British ARGOSY thinking that it was largely a reprint magazine. I now wish I had picked up issues but I guess you can't collect everything.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-72982215900103484692016-02-05T15:11:20.842-05:002016-02-05T15:11:20.842-05:00I, too, see a growing proliferation of niche mags-...I, too, see a growing proliferation of niche mags--especially at the laundromat where I while time hunting for narrative among the blizzard of ads that make me wonder if I'd be living better these days as a retired ad-writer than newshound. "When the power goes down" is the operative phrase here. Indeed, we shall need spiritual sustenance in addition to the NABs, beer and fig newtons. Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-14049352409617762352016-02-05T13:48:13.900-05:002016-02-05T13:48:13.900-05:00Excellent, Walker...thanks. I'll look into tho...Excellent, Walker...thanks. I'll look into those...and I hope you've seen/read Martha Foley's THE STORY OF STORY memoir, which I reviewed for FFB some time back. <br />Btw, did you ever read and collect the UK ARGOSY much?<br /><br />George, I suspect you're right about newspapers, at least, and I'm of mixed feelings there, given how much paper they waste on an often, though less frequently, daily basis...magazines, perhaps as only a coterie interest, probably will be with us for a while yet, given their convenience when the power goes down. But niche publications, such as the fiction magazines we like, are going to do better, I suspect, than what remains of the reasonably mass-circulation paper magazines. Certainly such items as PLAYBOY, MAXIM and ESQUIRE are casting about for new identities, even if the last mostly in multimedia branding (a new cable channel, etc.).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-25097135202337009782016-02-05T11:37:54.700-05:002016-02-05T11:37:54.700-05:00Sadly, I think newspapers and magazines are doomed...Sadly, I think newspapers and magazines are doomed. The generation raised on cell phones and flat-screen TVs have little interest in old-fashioned printed material. I loved the EVERGREEN REVIEW!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-76466905647753549742016-02-05T10:02:04.124-05:002016-02-05T10:02:04.124-05:00This excellent and valuable book on the history of...This excellent and valuable book on the history of the little magazine in America is certainly in the running for best ever issue of a little magazine. It was the first important book on the subject since the ground breaking 1947 book, THE LITTLE MAGAZINE.<br /><br />There have been a few other books that I consider important also. In chronological order:<br /><br />BRITISH LITERARY MAGAZINES: The Modern Age by Alvin Sullivan<br /><br />AMERICAN LITERARY MAGAZINES: The Twentieth Century by Edward E. Chielens<br /><br />LITTLE MAGAZINE PROFILES by Wolfgang Gortschacher(751 pages).<br /><br />CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON TH3E LITTLE MAGAZINE SCENE by Wolfgang Gortschacher(915 pages)<br /><br />And finally two enormous and expensive volumes:<br /><br />THE OXFORD CRITICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERIST MAGAZINES: Volume 1 which covers the UK. and Volume 2 which covers North America. There is also a third volume which I haven't bought yet but it covers the rest of Europe.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-41923390533901372502016-02-05T04:01:24.711-05:002016-02-05T04:01:24.711-05:00It's a book, in the Pushcart pb edition I pick...It's a book, in the Pushcart pb edition I picked ip cheaply, that sits rather more comfortably in the hand than I would've guessed.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-42968279795535685852016-02-05T03:42:20.522-05:002016-02-05T03:42:20.522-05:00Utterly amazing and a true blockbuster! I'm no...Utterly amazing and a true blockbuster! I'm not sure I could even lift a 750-page magazine ...Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com