SLPAD - 128 - “Entropy” - 1

[Michael Bailey]

Cool - must’ve been exciting to work there then!


it’s weird, all these great authors during Macaulay’s time at Kenyon, yet
according to Wikipedia, the publication lost money - and acclaim -during
his time there till going down the tubes completely in 1969

The publishing business is a harsh mistress, I guess is the takeaway here?

wondering whether to chase down some of his (Mr Macaulay’s) poems & novels…


Also, is it just me, or is their cover art particularly enticing?

Eg all these
https://kenyonreview.org/product/spring-2023/




On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:23 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Robie must have.....maybe depends on when John Crowe retired from
> it in 1959....
>
> the Spring issue was April ....the Winter issue was January....and
> a periodical like that has to work more than one issue ahead....
>
> Tom says he wrote it in 1959.
>
> I met Robie Macauley....He worked at Houghton Mifflin when I did....I knew
> of his own work
> but I did not want to gush....
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:27 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First published in Spring 1960 Kenyon Review
>>
>> - Kenyon Review founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom
>>
>> - Dr Ransom retired in 1959
>>
>> - Robie Macauley took the editorship - & ran with it for 10 years, so he
>> and/or his people likely shepherded “Entropy” (although maybe not, since
>> it
>> was in the Spring 1960 issue, depending on how far in advance it was
>> acquired)
>>
>> - Macauley’s WWII experience included the liberation of Flossenburg
>> concentration camp
>>
>>
>> - moribund from 1969 to 1979, Kenyon Review was revived by Marilyn Hacker,
>> poet (& early wife of SF author Samuel Delany)
>>
>> - it’s still around; cumulative lists of contributors is even more
>> impressive than those of “New World Writing” if that is possible
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
>