William Anthony Parker White, aka Anthony Boucher, among other pennames. But most of his associates called him "Tony"...August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968...a lot done in 56 years and change.review of his last volume (of six) in this annual series: BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 23rd Annual Collection, edited by Anthony Boucher (Dutton, 1968); and a book detailing the origins and editorial correspondence around (as well as anthologizing from) The Magazine of Fantasy (and Science Fiction, as it's title was extended with the second issue), THE EUREKA YEARS: Boucher and McComas's Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1949-1954, edited by Annette Pelz McComas reviewed here; Boucher generally on the blog.
And for what made these magazines relevant to him and his career when they didn't include explicit tribute to him...well, White/Boucher was the first (as far as I've been able to ascertain) to place an English translation of Borges fiction anywhere, in this case "The Garden of the Forking Paths", in EQMM in 1948, indicative of his continuing interest in international literature, particularly from Spanish...and he drew fiction from all the cited magazines for one project or another over his years (including for his radio and television work)...I really should double-check to find the ghost(?) memory of his reprinting or long-listing/recommending fiction from The Paris Review.
With the mild exception of the UK magazine Argosy and a typically striking, if simple, cover on The Paris Review, not a great month for cover design on our samples below, even if the F&SF Gahan Wilson is distinctive and the AHMM has a better cover than usual for that often-dowdy magazine (the cover of the July issue was particularly amateurish, as their July 4th-related red and white-striped covers tended to be during the first publisher's run):
Fantastic [v17 #6, August 1968] (50¢, 148pp, digest) [] |
TriQuarterly 13-14, Fall-Winter 1968-69; edited by Charles Newman; Jose Donoso, guest co-editor of this issue. Published by Northwestern University, usually in Fall, Winter and Spring. "Contemporary Latin American Literature" issue. 506pp (excluding "contributors" credit text beginning on back cover) + ii pages
ii * Editor's Note * Charles Newman * ed
6 * Commentary
6 * A Literature of Foundations * Octavio Paz * es translated by Lysander Kemp; illustration: etching by Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero
more to come...
Argosy (UK) [Vol. XXIX No. 8, August 1968] Edited by Lawrence Hammond (Fleetway Publications, 3/6d, 144pp, digest, cover by Michael Johnson) []
This issue can be read here...or could, but this file apparently still as of today hobbled by Archive.org's hacker attack and aftermath. The Dick Gregory excerpt can be read for free here at this time, and the issue with subscription.
- Cover * Bill Huehnergarth * il
- 3 * From the Editor * William A. Emerson, Jr. * ed
- 4 * Humphrey for President? * unsigned (Otto Friedrich?) * ed
- 4 * Watch Out for Wallace * unsigned * ed
- 12 * Speaking Out!: Uncle Tom Is Dead · Dick Gregory · ex Write Me In!, Bantam Books, 1968
- 16 * Points West: On Becoming a Cop Hater · Joan Didion · column
- 21 * Hubert Horatio Humphrey · Stewart Alsop · ar (illus. Stan Mack)
- 26 * Mayor Daley: Can the Ringmaster Keep the Show Going · Milton Viorst · ar
- 28 * Cockfight · Peter S. Beagle · essay
- 30 * Will This Man Conquer Cancer? · Richard Armstrong · bi/profile (photo by Fred J. Maroon; of Dr. Robert Huebner)
- 33 * Fighting Cancer: Where We Stand Now * Steven Spencer * ar
- 34 * The Stomach, Heart and Spirit of the House · James Beard · ar (photos by Michael Bry)
- 39 * The Man Who Fooled the World · Warner Law · nv (illus. Erik Blegvad)
- 52 * Is John Kenneth Galbraith Really That Good? * John Skow * bi/profile
- 57 * Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man? · Lawrence Dietz · bi/profile of Ralph Williams (photos Bill Bridges)
- 60 * Best Wishes to a Former Mistress and Carl Sandburg and a Dead Armenian and Other People I Lost Track Of · William Saroyan · ex from Letters from 74 Rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody (World Publishing Co., 1969) illus. Lou Glanzman
- 70 * My Kind of People * Charles Barsotti * cartoons
- 73 * cartoon * Russell Myers * ct
- 74 * cartoon * Jack Tippit * ct
- 76 * cartoon * uncredited * ct
- 80 * cartoon * Jack Tippit * ct
- 82 * cartoon * Charles Barsotti * ct
- 84 * America, America * Mischa Richter * ct
- 86 * Hazel * Ted Key * ct
- 88 * PostScripts * 3 cartoons, by Orlando Busino, Edward Koren & Don Orehek * ct
Links below to opening page of prose works cited (subscription for complete text). Fall 1968:
FICTION
INTERVIEW
POETRY
FEATURE
ART
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