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Spring 1953
No. 1: Spring 1953 Sold Out
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E. M. Forster on the Art of Fiction.

William Styron’s Letter to an Editor.

Stories by Peter Matthiessen, Terry Southern, and Eugene Walter. Poems by Robert Bly, Donald Hall, George Steiner.

Summer 1953
No. 2: Summer 1953 Sold Out
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“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna”: François Mauriac on the Art of Fiction.

Espinouze illustrates six Faulkner stories.

Poems by Richard Eberhart and Richard Wilbur.


Autumn 1953
No. 3: Autumn 1953 Sold Out
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“For a writer to spend much of his time in the company of authors is, you know, a form of masturbation”: An interview with Graham Greene.

The prophet v. the craftsman: Donald Hall on poetic method.

Stories by Evan S. Connell, Pati Hill, Sue Kaufman, and Donald Windham. Poems by Christopher Logue and George Steiner.


Winter 1953
No. 4: Winter 1953 Sold Out
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Irwin Shaw on Dick Tracy, the doom-conscious generation, and the Art of Fiction.

A fable by Eugene Walter. Stories by Alfred Chester, James Leo Herlihy, and Terry Southern. Poems by Geoffrey Hill, Vilma Howard, Howard Moss, and John Simon.


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