SLPAD - 94 - Low-Lands - 7 - market

[Michael Bailey]

Diverging a little, even though I can hardly wait to get to the house
description, this piece was published in 1960 in volume 16 of New World
Writing, a paperback periodical first published by New American Library's
Mentor imprint - and then, starting with said volume 16, by Lippincott.

Wikipedia lists an impressive number of impressive authors - seemingly a
step up from the outlet for "The Small Rain" which was Cornell Writer,
itself pretty respectable.

Kerouac, Gaddis, Picasso, Norman Mailer, Shirley Jackson, ee cummings,
Borges, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Saul Bellow, W.H. Auden, Samuel
Beckett, the first chapter of "Catch-18" and so forth.

I can't find volume 16 online for sale at all; other numbers are, many of
them, under 20$ though I did see one for almost 100. (Looking again, ones
with well-known author signatures are going for up to 900)


Impression I get is there were more of these literary outlets back then. I
was thinking all the _Slow Learner_ stories except for "Secret Integration"
came out in "little" magazines, but although I couldn't find circulation
figures for New World Writing, the Wikipedia article on its successor, New
American Review, shows a peak of 100,000 which is pretty good, isn't it?


There's a current online successor of sorts:

https://newworldwriting.net/

Founded by Frederick Barthelme as Mississippi Review when he was working at
the University of Southern Mississippi, changed to Blip when he left there,
and to New World Writing in 2012 with the following comment

"BlipMagazine has changed its name to New World Writing after the great
literary magazine of the 1950s. They were, of course, thinking of world
writing, whereas we are thinking more of the (perpetually) new world. We
hesitated in any case, as it is a grand old name and we are perhaps
insufficiently grand. Still, with some squinting, we are in the ballpark,
or near the ballpark, or in a position from which we can sort of see the
ballpark. Or so we hope and imagine."