Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the 1,500 little magazines now being published print anything and wind up sounding the same. "The multiplication of poets sort of leaves my mind blank," says Poet Karl Shapiro, former editor of Poetry. In many ways this collection of essays is a retrospective; editors like Robie Macauley, formerly of the Kenyan Review, fear that the little magazine is "rather like a Conestoga wagon in the day of the automobile...
...ANTHONY MACAULEY...
Middlebrow Raid. The Kenyon changed direction in the '60s. Under Novelist Robie Macauley, chosen by Ransom to succeed him as editor, it paid more attention to fiction and broad essays on contemporary culture. Macauley may have been right to de-emphasize criticism. The nation's new crop of critics were more scholastic and often imitative. But the lure of little literary journals meant nothing to the new writers of the decade, who could find big money and broader fame in relatively large-circulation magazines like Esquire, Harper's and Atlantic. As Macauley, now fiction editor of Playboy...