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Spring 1974
No. 57: Spring 1974 Sold Out
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“I have told people I am a medieval historian when asked what I do. It freezes conversation. If one tells them one’s a poet, one gets these odd looks”: W. H. Auden on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by Edmundo Desnoes, Grace Paley, and Christina Stead. Poems by Richard Frost and W. S. Merwin.


Summer 1974
No. 58: Summer 1974 Sold Out
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“You have to read in order to write. Art is a seamless web and we latch on where we find a loose end”: An interview with Archibald MacLeish.

Stories by Patricia Griffith, William Harrison, and Erik Tarloff. Poems by Fanny Howe, Robert Phillips and Ira Sadoff.


Fall 1974
No. 59: Fall 1974 Sold Out
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“In the land of the free, one sentence must be as good as another because that is democracy”: An interview with Gore Vidal.

Peter Ardery, In Memoriam.

Stories by Frederick Busch and Mike Kempton. Poems by Maxine Chernoff and Louis Simpson.


Winter 1974
No. 60: Winter 1974 Sold Out
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“I wanted to be a writer when I was in the sixth grade—of course, I wanted to be one without working at it”: Joseph Heller on the Art of Fiction.

Peter Matthiessen discusses his new novel format, inspired by haiku poetry and screenplays.

Stories by Gail Godwin, Herbert Gold, and Peter Matthiessen. Poems by Anen Sexton and Charles Simic.


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