Columbia UP has just published a new anthology on editing magazines, The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry. While it’s about contemporary magazines, it will likely hold some interest for those interested in the ways magazines are mad and work. Here’s a list of the contents:
Essays include: “Talking About Writing for Magazines (Which One Shouldn’t Do)” by John Gregory Dunne; “Magazine Editing Then and Now” by Ruth Reichl; “How to Become the Editor in Chief of Your Favorite Women’s Magazine” by Roberta Myers; “Editing a Thought-Leader Magazine” by Michael Kelly; “Fact-Checking at The New Yorker” by Peter Canby; “A Magazine Needs Copyeditors Because . . . .” by Barbara Walraff; “How to Talk to the Art Director” by Chris Dixon; “Three Weddings and a Funeral” by Tina Brown; “The Simpler the Idea, the Better” by Peter W. Kaplan; “The Publisher’s Role: Crusading Defender of the First Amendment or Advertising Salesman?” by John R. MacArthur; “Editing Books Versus Editing Magazines” by Robert Gottlieb; and “The Reader Is King” by Felix Dennis
New Book on Transnational Modernism in a Periodical Context
One of the least tapped into but most exciting aspects periodicals studies can play in literary history is the power of the magazine to create links across national literatures. Modernist studies has been talking about transnational turn for the past decade, but transnationalism remains better theorized than actualized, which is why it’s so exciting to see that Gayle Rogers’
Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford University Press) is available now. Rogers draws heavily on modernist magazines like The Criterion and the Revista de Occidente in order to uncover a long obscured history of collaboration that contributed to the mutual constitution of modernism in Spain and Britain.
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