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...editor of The Crimson...
Last week at a luncheon in New York's Hotel Pierre, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the American Society of Magazine Editors held the eleventh annual National Magazine Award presentation. A Special Award in the Field of Public Service was presented to TIME for last year's Bicentennial issue, "Independence!," the most popular issue in the magazine's 53-year history. Four days earlier, TIME had won the national Headliners Award for this same July 4, 1776, issue. Both honors came as Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited our first Bicentennial special, was plunging...
Married. Carl Bernstein, 31, one half of the Washington Post's prizewinning Watergate-reporting team and co-author (with Bob Woodward) of the bestselling The Final Days; and Nora Ephron, 34, witty feminist editor (Esquire) and author (Crazy Salad); both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Poetry editors are drowning in a sea of manuscripts. It is not unusual for the most obscure journals and quarterlies to be inundated with 3,000 poems a month. Nearly 400 books of poetry are published in the U.S. each year. Antaeus Editor (and poet) Daniel Halpern optimistically calls this a "blossoming of talent," but there is a darker side to the phenomenon. Poet Louis Simpson voices a common refrain when he complains that "there are few readers of poetry of any kind." Statistics bear him out. Poetry is a prestigious loss-leader on publishers' lists. The book...
...impressive new book, Irving Howe has chosen to remember. Howe, the editor of Dissent, and a third generation East European himself, has written the story of how the "bedraggled and inspired" Jewish immigrants lost a heritage and found a home on New York's lower East Side. World of Our Fathers revitalizes what are by now the familiar details of the unspeakable slums of East Broadway, the feverish Jewish labor movement, the lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake...